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The same year, the first version of the Blinkist app went live with text based book summaries. The company moved into its first office in Berlin, with 8 employees in total. At the end of 2014 the app reached 1,000 customers and also launched its audio function, which made it possible to listen to summaries instead of reading.
GetAbstract, founded in 1999, is a Swiss and US-based corporation that summarizes books, videos, articles, and other content for business customers. [1] The summaries are available in English, German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, French and Portuguese. getAbstract was co-founded in 1999 by Thomas Bergen, Patrick Brigger, and Rolf Dobelli ...
The book concerns bus-driving (Mills himself was once a bus-driver in London). The title refers to the concept (upheld by the inspectors) that "a fixed interval between buses on a regular service can be attained and adhered to". The novel concerns the tension between the officious inspectors and the drivers themselves who aim to arrive early.
Headway is the distance or duration between vehicles in a transit system. The minimum headway is the shortest such distance or time achievable by a system without a reduction in the speed of vehicles. The precise definition varies depending on the application, but it is most commonly measured as the distance from the tip (front end) of one ...
There were originally planned to be only six stories, with one being submitted by a fan through a competition. However, the winning entry by then 12-year-old Lauren Roberts, "Of Mums and Wizards" [3] (Lisa's worry) ended so sadly that Wilson was motivated to write a seventh story to give the book a happier ending. [4]
She was, and the book, Movies in Fifteen Minutes: Hollywood Blockbusters For People Who Can't Be Bothered was released in October 2005. It contains "the ten biggest movies ever," parodies not published online. [3] The book is not currently available in the United States, though it has been published in Europe, where it met with praise. [4]
10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World opens in 1990 with "Tequila Leila", who is a prostitute. [6] [7] The story has her five outcast friends, who don't share a worthy importance in an illiberal country. [6] Leila enters the state of awareness in her last moments, after she has been murdered and left in a dumpster outside Istanbul. [8 ...
Jane Purdy is a 15-year-old student at Woodmont High School in California. She dreams of having a boyfriend like blonde, popular, and sophisticated 16-year-old Marcy Stokes has. Jane feels somewhat left out of social circles at her high school, and envies the more popular girls who go out on dates, seem more confident and wear more expensive ...