This Website Summarizes Any Article So You Don't Have To Read It Yourself

Long-form articles can give you a thorough insight for a particular topic provided that you have enough time to scroll through 5,000 words. However, many of us don’t have that much time to dig into a long article right this second, and we can use some help from this website to understand what it talks about without having to look at each of its words.

TLDR, Too Long Didn’t Read, summarizes articles that are so long that you can’t or don’t want to read. The website summarizes any article automatically, as well as webpage, document, essay, or text when you copy/paste an article’s text or input a site’s URL into the website.

Tests show that the site tends to work better with longer articles. The highlights it pulls out from short texts are less accurate than those from longer-form ones.

In addition, the site seems to work better with long articles compared with narrative essays and similar work. For example, the image below shows the site’s summary of an article on Outside about a murder that didn’t even mention murder.

Nevertheless, in another example, the site generated the summary for an article about the El Paso shooter on Daily Beast and it was quite accurate.

Keep in mind that the website cannot truly replace your own reading but if you cannot read an article right away or want to view what it talks about to decide whether to save it for later, this tool can make a good choice.