Reading books is a passion for many, but with the changing work scenario, it becomes a task to take out time, buy a book, and devote hours to complete it. To tackle this issue, many people juggle during the traveling and break time to compensate for their passion.
Blinkist is an ideal app for such people. This educational app comes with the key insights of 2,500+ bestselling nonfiction books that can be covered in 15-minute time.
"Blinkist offers a terrific service – great ideas distilled down to their very essence. For those of us who are deeply curious about new ideas on success, happiness, innovation, progress and more, it’s a great start." - Forbes
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Blinkist is one of the best book summary app for the entrepreneurship, self-development, life hacking, and science genres. From its collection of over 2500 e-books, the user can read and listen to the short summaries in less than 15 minutes.
To churn out a 15-minute summary, Blinkist app's team goes through the book, takes out the key insights, and explicitly explains them in a crisp, concise manner. Every such insight that is pulled out is called a 'blink'.
The educational app offers some of the excellent features which compliment the user in many ways.
The Blinkist app team read the books, highlight the key points, and explains the crux to the readers and listeners. Besides helping the user with the overview of the book, Blinkist app is also helpful in making up the mind before investing more time in the book.
Although the Blinkist notification book is designed to work on the smartphone, with its web app, the user can read books on the computer as well. For better integration of the app, Blinkist is made available on iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon. Going further, the user can log in into this app using their email or Facebook account.
To caters to the need of people from all genres. The Blinkist app is packed with 19 different categories like non-fiction, psychology, sales, economics, self-help, etc. You can check out the complete list here.
Following are the top 10 books that are most read titles by the app community:
The app comes with free and premium plans. The free plan indeed has some features missing from that of the premium plan. Interestingly, the premium plan can be used for 30 days, and if the user wishes to proceed further, he needs to shell out $12.99 per month. For annual commitment, it’s $6.67 per month.
With the premium version, you can squeeze more juice out of this excellent app. The Blinkist Premium includes unlimited access to 2,500+ titles unlimited access to audio versions of all titles the ability to read & listen offline, a send-to-Kindle feature, personalized recommendations from the Blinkist editorial team, and more.
Blinkist Premium includes:
If you are really looking for options that can help you save money without hindering your passion of reading books, I must say Blinkist app is the right platform. But while going through the summary in a mere 15-minute time, there is surely a possibility that you are going to miss on something or the other.
Therefore, while considering both sides of the coin, I have penned down the pros and cons of this app. Take a look and comprehend if this app is for you or not.
Advantages of Blinkist App:
Disadvantages of Blinkist App:
Overall, Blinkist is a smart concept for the people of today’s generation who have very less time and also wish to fuel their passion for book reading. With the availability of comprehensive book summaries for reading and listening, this app should be must-have on your list.
We all know what significance Quora platform holds for all kinds of queries. So, for the Blinkist app, we looked out for Quora to get an unbiased users reactions. Take a look:
To complete a book, it does take time and an app like Blinkist is an ideal aid to go through the book summary in the shortest possible time. Covering multiple categories and some very famous books, Blinkist app is a complete package.
Also, there are some shortcomings to this app. The books on biographies and related stuff can’t be summarized in a bubble of 15 minutes and thus, we can’t expect to get a thorough go through of such books.
Overall, Blinkist is a smart concept for the people of today’s generation who have very less time and also wish to fuel their passion for book reading. With the availability of comprehensive book summaries for reading and listening, this app should be must-have on your list.
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