Comments on: Cliff Notes via Slide Decks

By: MJ

MJ — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:56:42 +0000

Phew.

“My current unread stack is about 60″

I’m not the only one who buys a book with all the best intentions and then runs of out of that “time” thingie.

By: le craic

le craic — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:04:49 +0000

I”m a subsciber to a business book summary website for almost 2 years now and it’s very good. http://www.bizsum.com

By: Alexia Golez

Alexia Golez — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:34:34 +0000

Interesting idea, yes.

I’m wondering what kind of Cliff Notes would be produced. It would be an interesting experiment to compare and contrast two sets of Notes produced by different people to see how opinion informs their perception of important points. It would make for insightful reading. It’s very likely that ideas I note as important, are meaningless to another.

I’m not sure how consistent scabbing someone’s perception of big points from books would be. Remember how Cliff Notes scamped on the subtlety of themes? I suppose an interesting question would be – how does one achieve a more consistent summary of literature without cutting out the little ideas that spark.

By: Darragh

Darragh — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:23:47 +0000

It’s a great idea Mulley. My book list is probably something like yours, though I doubt you have as many “For Dummies” books as I do there…

By: pat phelan

pat phelan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:16:19 +0000

@damien
heehee
deleted all the broadcasters on twitter ages ago

By: Damien

Damien — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:11:10 +0000

Heya Seth,
Cheers for the comment, if you didn’t broadcast on Twitter and instead had a conversation there (they’re markets these days I read), then I could have Twittered it to you.

By: Johnny K

Johnny K — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:56:11 +0000

@Richard LOL

By: Richard Delevan

Richard Delevan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:44:47 +0000

Irony of the week. Seth makes point that Damien could have condensed this post to a Tweet. Damien used a Tweet to let the world know that Seth commented on the post. Somewhere in CERN they’re carefully placing this perpetual feedback loop into the Large Hadon Collider to see what happens.

By: Seth Godin

Seth Godin — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:09:20 +0000

And don’t you hate it when a blog post could just as easily be twitttered? This one could have been 100 characters long.

Of course, you can’t win them all. Many people complain my books are too short. Sigh.

By: Enda Madden

Enda Madden — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:40:31 +0000

I’ve been using allconsuming for general recording of books read and to be read. Definately interested in freading and putting up some summaries of books read like Kawasaki, Friedman, Blanchard and David Allen. Even some of the “old school” books like Covey.