This brought to mind some work I was involved with at the University of Pennsylvania's Language Laboratory. We worked with more efficient ways to deliver books and reading material, and one of the experiments was to compress books and make them available for select classes. Overall a quite simple technique. Then measured the effort/effort/use/value that was achieved. In general this worked well with some kinds of class content, we touched on neural based techniques The approach called Blinkist, mentioned below, is apparently doing some something similar. I have not tested this, nor has Engadget, who originally posted the below. Also I have not received any compensation for posting this. But am intrigued by the application. May take a further look.
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