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expiredWhatta-Deal posted Nov 28, 2023 01:10 AM
85% Off Blinkist Premium Text/Audio Book Summary Subscription: 1-Year Plan
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Blinkist and headway are pretty comparable - but I think blinkist has been around longer, has a larger library, and generally a slightly more polished product. The summaries were similar (I listened to some of the same books on both) but I think blinkist was a little better overall. I also don't like that headway uses robotic TTS voice for a lot of the summaries, vs blinkist mostly uses voice actors (though they do have some AI TTS now too - but it sounds better than the headway one).
Shortform is on a whole different level. It is a significantly more expensive product, the app interface is terrible (at least on android), it has a smaller library - but the summaries completely blow both headway and blinkist out of the water. Listening to atomic habits on all 3 of the apps, I was blown away by how much better shortform was. They are longer summaries, often 1-2hrs, which IMO is really necessary to get the full value of the content of many of these books. There's only so much you can condense into 15 minutes and a lot of the books on headway/blinkist start to all sound the same. Shortform also fact check authors and compare/contrast statements against other literature, peer-reviewed studies, etc throughout the summaries and include stuff like critical thinking questions at the end.
So I'd say shortform>blinkist>headway, but if your goal is just to listen to as many book summaries as possible, blinkist is probably the way to go, and IMO very good value to try out at this price. I pulled the trigger.
This may be obvious but I'll also note that these apps are all best for nonfiction/self-help genre content. I did listen to a couple of fictions, and while they weren't terrible I just don't think you can get the full effect/enjoyment from good literature in condensed form like this.
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Canceled my current plan renewing tomorrow and bought the deal from OP. Great offer $13.5 w/no taxes (just write a different country even when paying with US CC)
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It is obviously a very condensed down version of the book. Similar to reading a quick review on a book.
But as expected doesn't touch the depths we want it to.
Haven't used it alot since I don't get much out of a quick summary of a 500 page dense book
EDIT: So yes I recommend both for different things/needs if you have commuting time to kill.
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