Long working hours, spending time with family, the requirements for a healthy social life, and often futile attempts to stay in shape mean that we have less time to do something we truly love: reading new books. The app Blinkist helped us get more reading time — sort of. “The basic idea of Blinkist is to take the best of new nonfiction and condense it into pieces just a minute or two long, with entire books summed up in a series of these “blinks” totaling 15 minutes or so,” as Techcrunch explains. Blinkist’s founders are aware they are not replacing book, with co-founder Niklas Jansen saying “we think of Blinkist as the bridge between no book and the book. There’s always a case why you should go on and buy the full book afterwards. Now, if only there was a way we could get more time to read some of the best fiction works out there…

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