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Radio 4,4 mins

How apps are turning books into 15-minute reads

Radio 4 in Four

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Do you have a giant pile of books on your bedside table or in your e-reader that you've hardly touched? Companies are offering to boil non-fiction books down to a series of bullet points that you can absorb in around 15 minutes. Melanie Abbott tried it out and talked to Winifred Robinson. First broadcast on You & Yours, 28 August 2017.

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