With very little time on my hands these days, my reading routine has definitely taken a backseat to activities like getting my garden ready for spring. So I was tickled to run into Squashed Philosophers today.

Covering the thinkers who influenced Western philosophy, this site condenses great books from their original length to as little as 5 minutes reading (Epicurus’s Sovran Maxims) up to slightly over an hour (Plato’s Republic).

Sure, it’s not the same thing as reading the original, but to badly butcher Frost, it is better to have read condensed than never to have read at all.

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