Frequently asked questions

BookBits turns nonfiction books into short summaries you can read or listen to in about 15 minutes. Each summary explains a book’s key ideas, so you can learn more in less time and choose which books to read in full.

Nonfiction only: business and leadership, psychology, health, money, history, science and more. The catalog has more than 4,000 books. Browse by category or goal.

Professionals, students and lifelong learners who want the key ideas of great books in less time, in Southeast Asia and beyond.

We add new titles regularly. Have a book in mind? Suggest it.

We write each summary in our own words through an AI-augmented process, and narrate it with natural-sounding AI voices. A summary explains a book’s main ideas; it does not reproduce the book’s text.

No. A summary gives you the key ideas in 15 minutes. When a book speaks to you, read it in full for the stories, evidence and detail a summary leaves out.

No. BookBits offers summaries of nonfiction books, not recordings of the complete original books.

Tell us the book title and what is wrong. We check it and correct the summary.

Full listening requires the BookBits app for iOS or Android. Use the website to explore the catalog, discover reading paths, hear short previews and choose your subscription.

Not yet. The BookBits apps for iOS and Android are coming soon. Until then, explore the catalog and listen to previews on the website.

Yes, for previews. Every book page on the website has a short audio preview, free and without an account.

English and Thai, with more Southeast Asian languages coming.

Unlimited listening to the available BookBits audio-summary catalog, for you and one invited person. These are summaries of nonfiction books, not recordings of the complete original books. Monthly and yearly include the same access.

฿99 a month, or ฿990 a year (2 months free). Prices include applicable taxes. See the plans.

The access is identical. Yearly is billed at ฿990 after the trial. That is 2 months free compared with twelve monthly payments of ฿99.

Yes. Both plans start with seven days free. A card is required to start the trial.

Nothing is charged for your seven-day free trial. Unless you cancel before it ends, your first payment is ฿99 for Monthly or ฿990 for Yearly. The same amount renews each month or year. A card is required; prices include applicable taxes.

Cancellation stops the next renewal. Both accounts keep access until the current trial or paid period ends. Cancel before the end of the free trial to avoid the first charge.

The seven-day free trial lets you try BookBits before you pay, so payments are not refunded. To avoid being charged, cancel before the trial ends. After a payment, you keep access until the end of the period you paid for.

Invite one person to join your subscription. They use their own login and keep their library and listening progress private. You can both listen at the same time, with one active playback per account. There is no need to share your password.

Please do not. Your plan already includes a second personal account for one invited person, so there is no need to share a password.

Contact us from the email address on your account, and we delete your account and its data.

Gift cards are coming soon.

A student plan is coming soon.

An affiliate program is coming soon. Contact us if you would like to hear when it opens.

Use our contact form. We reply by email.

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