Linda Holliday, founder and CEO of Semi-Linear, has “New media habits with old media tastes.” I have a similar problem, which I usually refer to as “so many books, so little time.” Semi-Linear has released a new product – Citia – that deconstructs major non-fiction works and lets readers (users) peruse the major themes, digging deeper where concepts interest them. A high-tech, non-linear Cliff Notes-esque way to tackle some of the overwhelming number of books you want to read.
I’ll save the truly absorbing books for when I have an afternoon. But for titles where you just really want the point (and a bit more) it isn’t a bad approach. (But I’m not gonna pay the same price as if I bought the entire book.)
And because Holliday has something interesting to say, check out this presentation from TOC 2012.