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Shortform
By Shortform
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“the thing that I personally subscribe to”
“short form is the world's best service that summarizes books”
“one book I've recently Revisited on short form is in fact the e- myth Revisited”
“short form is the world's best service that summarizes books”
“through the that system I have voted for various books”
“ShortForm is by far the best one out of all of them.”
“For me personally, the two ways I use ShortForm is firstly, I use ShortForm if I'm thinking of reading a book”
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