Oku might be a bit more popular than POLAR. We know about 7 links to it since March 2021 and only 5 links to POLAR. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I’ve been using https://oku.club and am very happy with it. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
I have been enjoying https://oku.club/ recently in case anyone is searching for a nicely functioning alternative. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
Const { extract } = require('@extractus/feed-extractor') Const { AssetCache } = require('@11ty/eleventy-fetch') Module.exports = async function () { const url = 'https://oku.club/rss/collection/POaRa' const asset = new AssetCache('books_data') if (asset.isCacheValid('1h')) return await asset.getCachedValue() const res = await extract(url).catch((error) => {}) const data = res.entries await... - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago
I recently tried the new Oku Club app for iOS, and I was impressed by what few brave guys were able to do against the Amazon/Goodreads giant. Just the b/w minimalistic style and the goodreads user data importer are selling points to me. Goodreads is truly lacking, but because it has no competitor they are doing nothing to improve. Oku is good news, and I think those guys are really capable of changing things. The... Source: almost 2 years ago
Another alternative I've seen recently is https://oku.club/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
I did find this https://getpolarized.io/ But it seems that project is dead. Source: 6 months ago
Https://getpolarized.io/ seems like it's in the same space - it's a product I wanted to love, but was a bit clunky to use and didn't end up sticking in my workflow. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
Don't think Anki has a fully baked implementation of incremental reading. Polar [0] is an interesting implementation of a similar concept: read and annotate and turn your highlights into Anki flashcards automatically. [0]: https://getpolarized.io. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
Https://getpolarized.io This is a tool meant to help with incremental reading, with support for generating Anki flashcards. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few are to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.” -- Francis Bacon Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book provides a decent framework for dealing with the variety of books out there. There are also tools like Polar[1]... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago
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