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Build a reading list and track your progress [Awesome Apps]

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Reading Time for iPhone
A smarter way to keep your reading list organized.
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Reading Time for iPhone and iPad lets you build a library of books, then tracks your progress as you read. It encourages reading by making everything easier and more fun.

You can easily scan books by their barcodes to add them to your library. When you start a reading session, a Live Activity will show up on your Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island or in StandBy.

The Reading Time app keeps track of your progress with detailed stats — like your reading speed, and estimated time until you’re finished — in an organized dashboard of books.

This app boils down bestsellers so you can read them in 15 minutes flat

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Enjoy lifetime access to a lengthy and expanding list of book summaries for only $69.99.
Save $230 on lifetime access to Headway Premium book summaries.
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Tired of the endless loop of doom scrolling? Let’s flip the script and embark on an adventure of self-discovery. Instead of squandering your free moments on Twitter (or X or whatever Elon’s calling it today), you can transform them into opportunities for growth. How, you ask? Well, get ready for a deal that will unleash your inner genius.

Introducing your new gateway to enlightenment: Headway Premium. It puts a treasure trove of popular reads right at your fingertips, neatly tucked into an app that’s bursting with knowledge. Right now, a lifetime subscription to Headway Premium is going for the unbelievable price of just $69.99, a savings of almost 80%.

Develop your kid’s learning skills with this No. 1 reading app

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Homer is the perfect learn-from-home solution for your kids
Homer is the perfect learn-from-home solution for kids.
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If you have young children at home right now, you know it’s an especially challenging time to make sure they get the education they deserve. If you’re trying to manage your kids’ learning at home online, and are struggling (i.e., trying to stop them from breaking the iPad), this 12-month subscription to Homer — The #1 Learn to Read App for Kids is sure to help.

Perfect for kids ages 2 to 8 years old, this helpful app is designed to boost your child’s reading, math, creativity and social learning skills with 1,000-plus interactive lessons, stories and generally fun activities.

Power through your reading list with this subscription

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This convenient app condenses books and fosters personal development
This convenient app condenses books and fosters personal development
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If you’re smart, you’re always looking for ways to sharpen your cognition and improve your brain’s processing power. After all, being able to consume more information and digest it quickly means you can be more efficient and productive.

You can take speed-reading courses and employ tactics to improve your memory, but there’s also a way you can work smarter (and not harder): Instaread Book Summaries let you tackle your reading list quickly.

With this app, you can consume full books in just minutes. And, for a limited time, you can save an extra 20% on already-discounted subscription prices when you use coupon code HOLIDAY20 at checkout.

This Mac app trains your brain to read better and faster

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Read faster and more effectively by harnessing the techniques of the world's best speed-readers.
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Lots of people are doing a lot more reading these days. That’s good for the mind and the soul, but it can also mean realizing that your reading skills haven’t improved much since high school. This Mac app delivers tech tools, exercises and expert guidance so you can get the most out of each page.

Get the gist of hundreds of books in 12 minutes each with this app

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Power through book summaries on hundreds of topics in just 12 minutes each.
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Books are one of the best things humans ever came up with. But let’s be honest — not every one of them requires days of your attention. Why devote precious hours to reading when it makes more sense to spend a few minutes getting the gist?

Score lifetime tools for language, reading, focus and health [Deals]

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Make the most of working from home by learning new skills, exercising, and more.
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Whether you’re getting outside for the summer or staying inside, it’s a great time to sharpen your mind and your body. This bundle of five lifetime app subscriptions covers language lessons, focus, working out, reading faster and more. Additionally, you can get all five at a massive 97% discount.

Get the skinny on books in 15 minutes with this app [Deals]

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Booknotes
This digital library for busy people provides the key insights from over 1,000 best-selling books in just 15 minutes.
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Reading is important and fulfilling, but it can take more time than many of us have. It’s also an unspoken fact that books are often longer than they need to be, so sometimes the best thing to do is just get a summary.

Round out your Christmas shopping with cloud storage, VPN protection and more [Deals]

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Swoop in on the last, best deals of the year.
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Christmas is here, so we’re giving the gift of great deals on essential digital tools. Below you’ll find discounts as high as 97% off for cloud storage, VPN protection, powerful tools for iOS management and more. Even better, you can also save an extra 15% when you use the promo code HAPPYHOLIDAYS at checkout.

Get caught up with hundreds of books in just 12 minutes each [Deals]

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Get caught up with the gist of all sorts of books in just 12 minutes.
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You’ll find some of the most interesting, important and entertaining information in books. But with all the books out there, and all the things vying for your attention and time, it can be hard to get through even a single book. That makes these condensed book breakdowns essential for anyone who wants to stay in the know while on the go.

Get the gist of best-selling books in 12 minutes with this app [Deals]

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Keep learning in your free moments with 12-minute summaries of books from all kinds of genres.
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Reading remains one of the best ways to soak in new information. But reading also takes a lot of time, and sometimes, you just need to know enough to get a grip on a subject, or to know what everybody’s talking about.

Skip the long reads with hundreds of book summaries [Deals]

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This service offers comprehensive summaries of the important books you don't have time to get to.
This service offers comprehensive summaries of the important books you don't have time to get to.
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Reading is one of the best things we can do to stay informed and keep our minds sharp. But it’s also one thing for which there’s never enough time. Instead of stressing over the books you can’t get to, this service gives the gist so you’re not in the dark.

Learn the secret to reading better and faster on your iPhone [Deals]

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This browser-based tool uses color to guide the eye from line to line, increasing reading speeds by up to 20 percent.
This browser-based tool uses color to guide the eye from line to line, increasing reading speeds by up to 20 percent.
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Do you find yourself re-reading the same sentence over and over again? Or accidentally skipping lines in a paragraph, momentarily losing your place? You can fix these issues with the right reading technique, and this browser-based tool can help.

Instapaper gets faster than ever in latest update

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Reading articles in Instapaper just got faster than ever. Photo: Instapaper
Reading articles in Instapaper just got faster than ever. Photo: Instapaper

If you haven’t used Instapaper for awhile, it might be time to dig the app out again. It’s just received a great new update to version 6.2, adding some slick features like speed reading, the ability to tweet screenshots of text, and more.