{"id":1502,"date":"2018-09-09T10:40:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T09:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2020-05-05T13:24:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T12:24:34","slug":"readitforme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/readitforme\/","title":{"rendered":"I can&#8217;t believe that Readitfor.me exists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading is one of the few pure joys left in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Books don&#8217;t have ads in them. Books don&#8217;t have extra downloadable content after you&#8217;ve bought them. Books don&#8217;t stay in a state of disappointing &#8216;early access&#8217;. Books are good.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong. I&#8217;m not one of those &#8216;I love nothing more than the smell of a new book, the feeling of turning pages, the rush of knowing you&#8217;re getting to the end&#8217; kind of people. Even though my life&#8217;s ambition is to one day be rich enough to own a failing bookshop, I read everything on my kindle these days. It&#8217;s just more convenient.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s the important bit: I still read them. I&#8217;ll spend months ploughing through a good book. Which in the age of 90-minute movies and meant-to-be-binged Netflix shows is pretty nuts. That&#8217;s a lot of time and attention to dedicate to one form of entertainment. But I don&#8217;t mind at all. A good book is a slow burn, and I wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way.<\/p>\n<p>But what if you&#8217;re too important to have the time to read books? Introducing: <a href=\"https:\/\/readitfor.me\/\">readitfor.me<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"616\" height=\"347\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2ABFfkCgkIM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Billed as &#8216;<em>the #1 book summary service for entrepreneurs, executives, and business coaches<\/em>&#8216; the pitch is this: WE READ BOOKS SO YOU DON&#8217;T HAVE TO.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/18485759_1573627772669733_803951060680232102_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&amp;oh=2d683b02b225ef5265be211d4646035f&amp;oe=5C378FCC\" width=\"820\" height=\"312\"><\/p>\n<p>They basically produce short twelve minute summaries of the kind of books that people who describe themselves as &#8216;serial entrepreneur&#8217; in their Twitter bio go crazy over. Books with titles like&nbsp;<em>HOW TO SCALE YOUR BUSINESS BRAIN AND SUCEED WITHOUT TRYING&nbsp;<\/em>or&nbsp;<em>POWER HACKS TO SUPERCHARGE YOUR MINDSET.&nbsp;<\/em>So it&#8217;s not fiction, or anything good, just typical executive trash. But it&#8217;s still annoying to me.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a gem from their FAQs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>What sort of equipment do I need for this?<\/strong><br \/>\nAll of our videos and workshops can be accessed on your tablet, laptop or smartphone, and can also be projected onto a boardroom wall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ahhhh yes. The way books were meant to be read. Little did Dickens know when he put pen to paper and inspired generations of writers in the English-speaking world, that one day we might be reading books &#8220;projected onto a boardroom wall&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, the sting is taken out of this by the fact that the books aren&#8217;t any good. 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