I have seen the bombardment of adTrolling of the APP, Blinkist.  The message seems to be that if you are not using this APP then you will fall behind of those who do.

In a nutshell, it is the digital, cleverly updated, version of CliffsNotes (I’m surprised the APP Icon is not yellow and black stripped).  I downloaded the APP on a trial basis and tried it out.  I also searched reviews on YouTube and there are some very comprehensive reviews of this APP (I was hoping to find a Blinkist version on the review of Blinkist, but no.).

I can see this working for a lot of Self-Help books, since so many of these books seem to have the same message and all these books have a few good ideas, but glued together with a lot of filler, so why not pick out the good ideas and remove the filler.

There are some very cool features of this APP, such as music background, friend sharing, digital offline downloads, speed dial of listening, note taking, etc.  and it is worth checking it out to see if it works for you.

I do not see it working well with Fiction–– I love reading every word of a novel and too much of the author’s prose are lost, and being an author, knowing how much time and brain power can be applied to a single page, the reader is missing out, and the platform only throws gasoline on an ADHD society already burning.

I am wondering if AI is being used to construct a shortened, condensed version of books to fill the shelves of Blinkist, and what subliminal message can be constructed and fed to the listener?  Who decides what pieces should be highlighted and what parts discarded?

This brings to mind an idea for a novel about the cultural brainwashing of society by Blinkist! But read the full version, please.