WikiSummaries, free book summaries

The next time you’re frustrated when we don’t have a book you want, try this web site. Maybe, just maybe, the book you want, or need for a school report, will be summarized and listed there.


WikiSummaries, free book summaries

“Free book summaries that anyone can contribute to! WikiSummaries.org provides free summaries of books, plays and other written documents. This complements Wikipedia, which is already an excellent source of information on authors and brief book summaries. Where Wikipedia leaves off, WikiSummaries will continue with character profiles, detailed chapter summaries, study questions, important quotes, analysis of metaphor and symbolism, etc.“

To check out the available summaries at:

http://wikisummaries.org/Category:Summaries, scroll down the page to the “Subcategories” heading if you’re looking for a particular type of book, such as Business, Investing, Finance. Otherwise, keep scrolling down the page to the “Articles in category ‘Summaries’." That’s where you’ll find a listing of all the titles currently reviewed.

Thanks to Bob Walsh at ToDoOrElse.com “Where Getting Things Done and Future Shock intersect.” for the following article posted on April 9, 2007:

Keeping up with the world of books

A friend of mine remarked this weekend that while he didn't have time read all the good business books that come out each month, so he's glad his company provides through a business book summary service the gist of what's new and notable. While I've never been willing to pay the $150 a year some of these companies want for their summaries, I recently found a great free alternative: WikiSummaries.

To judge the quality of these community-created, freely editable book summaries, I checked out the WikiSummary of Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat. While it lacked the flair and human interest stories of the original, the WikiSummary definitely explained what The World is Flat was all about, chapter by chapter, idea by idea.

Guess what? They even have summaries of the Harry Potter books there. How about that? ENJOY!