I'm the founder & developer of Cobalt, an app that condenses nonfiction and personal development books into summaries of 5 key ideas you can read in a few minutes. The part shown in the video: you point your camera at any physical book (on your shelf, at a friend's place, in a bookstore) and if it's in the library, you land straight on its summary. Handy for deciding whether a book is worth buying, revisiting one you read years ago and mostly forgot, or simply learning something new. Reading a summary is only half of it, so there's a layer on top: - Mini-games at the end of each summary to check you actually understood the book's concepts, plus memory aids so the ideas stick. - Customizable summary templates: AI reshapes how summaries are structured to match the way you like to learn. - A personal assistant that helps you actually implement the habits from the books into your daily life, instead of forgetting everything two weeks(minutes^^) later. - Audio summaries (available in six languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese)). Summaries & audio summaries are available in six languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese), written natively rather than translated, and every one of them is reviewed and approved by our editor before it goes live. It comes with few other surprises I'll let you discover by yourself. Pricing: free to download with a 7-day full-access trial. Subscribe during that first week and you lock the early price: $5.99/month or $39.99/year(€5.99 / €47.99). After that it's €9.99/month or €79.99/year. If you wanna take a look: Website: https://cobaltapp.io/reddit App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6746136038 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zewcro.cobalt If you've used Blinkist, Headway or something similar: what made you stick with it, or drop it? And I'm genuinely curious whether the book-scanning part is something you'd actually use, or a gimmick I'm overestimating.   submitted by   /u/zewcro [link]   [comments]