{"id":11371,"date":"2014-08-15T17:27:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T16:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=11371"},"modified":"2014-08-15T17:27:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T16:27:44","slug":"blinklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2014\/08\/15\/blinklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinklist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blinkist.com\/en\/blinks\/\">Blinklist<\/a>, a new non-fiction book summary service. I tried the timely <em>Spillover<\/em> (scientific look at the history and future trajectory of plagues), and got a clear and well structured 4,800 word summary.<\/p>\n<p>The free trial lasts for three days, then it&#8217;s $5 a month for a three-month lock-in. I noted:<\/p>\n<p>* You can&#8217;t use their save-to-Kindle button, except via the paid version.<br \/>\n* No RSS feed, to alert you to newly added books.<br \/>\n* A moderate amount of dubious bestseller fluff (Jared Diamond, Naomi Klein, Malcolm Gladwell, etc).<br \/>\n* Currently only 40 new books added per month.<br \/> * Strong in &#8216;the latest business buzz&#8217; and popular science books.<br \/>\n* A very noticeable liberal\/leftist bias in selection.<br \/>\n* Really ugly line breaks on the text of the website&#8217;s catalogue cards.<br \/>\n* No spoken-word versions of the summaries.<br \/>\n* No rider that similarly digests and impartially evaluates all the pertinent criticisms of the book, from the various reviews.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s certainly an interesting business model, and delivers what it promises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blinklist, a new non-fiction book summary service. I tried the timely Spillover (scientific look at the history and future trajectory &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2014\/08\/15\/blinklist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}