This wouldn’t really have to be it’s own project/website/organization, right? It could just be a tag on the forum for book review or book summary. Right now I think it isn’t really culturally normal for people to put book reviews/summaries of EA-related books on the EA forum. To be that feels a bit too much like a personal blog. But cultural norms/practices can change, and I think it would be acceptable to have book reviews/summaries as long as A) the intent is to help other people and B) the content is EA-relevant.
Are you thinking specifically of having 5-20 minutes of audio providing a high abridged version of the book, or do you think that written text summarizing the book would be fine?
Regarding the on demand aspect, sometimes before I read a book or after I read a book I Google around for summaries. Usually I am able to find at least a few people’s writings, although if the book is quite obscure I might not be able to. So it seems that with a relatively small amount of effort we can already access summaries of most books.
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This wouldn’t really have to be it’s own project/website/organization, right? It could just be a tag on the forum for book review or book summary. Right now I think it isn’t really culturally normal for people to put book reviews/summaries of EA-related books on the EA forum. To be that feels a bit too much like a personal blog. But cultural norms/practices can change, and I think it would be acceptable to have book reviews/summaries as long as A) the intent is to help other people and B) the content is EA-relevant.
Are you thinking specifically of having 5-20 minutes of audio providing a high abridged version of the book, or do you think that written text summarizing the book would be fine?
Regarding the on demand aspect, sometimes before I read a book or after I read a book I Google around for summaries. Usually I am able to find at least a few people’s writings, although if the book is quite obscure I might not be able to. So it seems that with a relatively small amount of effort we can already access summaries of most books.