In about the time it takes to cook an egg, you could learn how to win friends and influence people, discover 30 ways to reboot your body, or develop 7 habits of highly effective people. If these sound like book titles to you, you’re not wrong. And you can read all of them and more on 12min’s micro book library.

Undoubtedly you’re thinking these books are going to take a lot longer than 12 minutes to go through. Not anymore.

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According to a survey conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans spend slightly over 16 minutes a day reading for pleasure. What if you could read a whole book in that time? Micro books are longer books that are succinctly made into a very comprehensive read, concentrating on the key ideas in each of them. This allows you to focus on what’s truly important, and at the same time frees up your time for the other pressing issues in your life.

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