BLINKIST

I have a confession: for a proud feminist, my ‘girl power’ bookshelf is patchy. I can happily quote Virginia Woolf’s A Room

of One’s Own, but I haven’t got round to Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex.

Enter Blinkist: the free app that condenses non-fiction books into summaries that take no more than 15 minutes to read or listen

to. So in the time it would take me to wade through the introduction to Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth, I’ve whizzed through Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain

Things To Me, and I even squeezed in Naomi Klein’s environmental hit This

Changes Everything. Sacrilege? Well, it’s as close to binge-watching as reading will ever get, but, like most of us,

I am time-poor and crave deeper understanding. Nothing will ever beat reading a book from cover to cover, but

using Blinkist to brush up on history, science and pop psychology feels like the

snappiest way to be a bit smarter.

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