Books (and news) can take less time too ...

Blinkist, which launched back August, consists of an online website and iPhone app (free) that includes a catalog of non-fiction books, each summarized down to essential chapters, or “blinks”. Individual books can be read in about 15 minutes. The service is similar to the news tracking service Cicra (reviewed here), which presents and updates the major points of important and breaking news stories from around the world for its subscribers.