Friday, December 15, 2006

WikiSummaries

If speed-reading isn't your thing, you may have another option:

WikiSummaries is an online repository of collaborative book summaries.

WikiSummaries runs on MediaWiki (the open source software that powers Wikipedia), so you can basically think of WikiSummaries as the Wikipedia of book summaries. WikiSummaries is currently a bit scant on summaries, but, naturally, that's nothing a few dedicated users can't fix. If you're not keen on the potential misinformation that could be fairly easily inserted on such a site, you might also want to check out previously-mentioned LitSum. Or, you know, read the book.

WikiSummaries

Here are a few summaries that look interesting:

There's also one on Capitalism and Freedom, but it doesn't look as complete as the others.

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