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tenaciousDaniel

I had an idea to do something similar but with the following differences:

- publishers could submit either text or audio

- publishers could choose between summarizing the entire book, or each chapter

- the app would have a kind of "marketplace" where summary writers could link up with audio producers. This would be helpful for (a) people who want to publish both written and audio summaries but didn't have audio knowledge, and (b) people who want to monetize their audio capabilities but don't necessarily know any books to summarize.

Feel free to steal my ideas. I reeaaalllyyy want an app where I can find decent long-form podcast-style summaries of non-fiction books that I don't have the time to read.

Thanks so much. Audio summaries are such a great idea that I never thought of before. Once I have couple of writers/authors I will throw this idea on them.

yeah just stream it like spotify and then charge a monthly fee. I'd throw my money at that.

Audio is going big everyday, so definitely I will look if I can make something there.

Have you looked a Blinkist? https://www.blinkist.com/

Yeah but I don't like it. What I'm looking for is an open, user-generated platform where the best summaries are upvoted. Blinkist is more of a curated list, and they're all formatted the same. I honestly don't give a crap about a 10-minute summary of a book. If I want a good summary, where I actually absorb some of the info, I need at least a 10 minute segment on each chapter. And even then, preferably, I could choose to listen to a different chapter-by-chapter summary by someone else if I wanted to.

Hm, interesting. I kind of forgot about it during my trial period, never even used it, and I wasn't willing to shell out the entire year ($80?) for it.

A quick and dirty option could be text to speech. It won't be as nice as audio, but easy to code and less bandwidth.

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