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Interesting. I did something similar this past summer that I called the Wisbit App (wisbit for wisdom-tidbit). The idea behind the project was to collect the m
by agilo 15y ago
Interesting.
I did something similar this past summer that I called the Wisbit App (wisbit for wisdom-tidbit). The idea behind the project was to collect the most important passages (or wisbits) from books and present them as summaries. Users wanting to save time on reading books simply browse the curated passages and rank them. It was my first ROR app, so it leaves much to be desired, and I've only added my own readings to the collection of books thus far. Anyways, here it is in case anyone of you finds it useful: http://wisbit.akeelali.com/ http://wisbit.akeelali.com/
- peter_l_downs 15y agoHow were you picking out the most important passages? If you don't already have an automated method, try taking a look at my own side project, http://bookshrink.com http://bookshrink.com. (yes this is a shameless plug).
- agilo 15y agoThey are hand-picked. The project was to encourage people to adopt a new way of reading where you'd highlight useful passages while reading. In addition, to improving retention rates (as you are forced to re-read the highlighted passage), you submit them to the site for ranking, and get to revisit them at your leisure. This would essentially allow you to refresh your memory as to the contents of a certain book (instead of rereading it entirely). Moreover, you'd help others who don't have time to read the book (and only want to see its gist). Your side project is pretty neat. I worked on something similar once that involved the Open Text Summarizer (OTS).