About Smart Reads
Reading is smart. Smart Reads sorts through all the best content available and condenses the most helpful information into easily digestible chunks. So while your bring smart reading smart reads your also saving time and reading smart.
We design our books to be short, easy to read and highly informative. Leaving you with maximum understanding in the least amount of time.
Smart Reads aims to accelerate the spread of quality information so we’ve taken the copyright off of everything we publish and donate our material directly to the public domain.
We also believe in paying it forward and donate 5% of our net sales to Pencils of Promise to build schools, train teachers and support child education. And to lessen our footprint we are planting a tree for every 10 hard cover books we sell.
We consider ourselves Smart Readers, not dummies. We likes to learn a TON about a WIDE variety of topics. It’s the best way to capture the big picture! With the amount of noise in the marketplace each new topic we try to learn about begins with a never ending search to find the facts that matter. It becomes a treasure hunt rather than an education.
Smart Reads aims to be your one-stop-shop for superior information on any subject you want to learn about. When you see a Smart Reads book on your topic of interest you know your search for quality information is over. As a smart reader, you get more information on more topics in less time.
Our Mission
Smart Reads mission is to accelerate the spread and availability of valuable information. We believe having access to knowledge is a basic human right and want to see every person on the planet be able to learn about any topic that would enhance their lives. We hope to remove barriers to sharing by taking the copyright off everything we publish and donating it to the public domain.
We also know we can’t accomplish this mission by ourselves. Smart Reads is giving 5% of our net profit to Pencils of Promise. We hope to donate $1,000,000 or more by 2020 to build over 2,000 schools and increase educational opportunities in the developing world. By purchasing from Smart Reads you are contributing to helping kids all over the globe get access to a valuable education they otherwise wouldn’t have had.
Smart Reads is also planting a tree for every 10 hard cover books we sell. This will help to limit our footprint as a company as well as playing a part in restoring forests around the globe. Our goal is to plant 1,000,000 trees by 2020.
Doesn’t it feel good knowing that by educating yourself you are helping the next generation!? We think so too…
Thanks for helping us help the world by choosing smart reads.
You Smart Reader you…
Travis and the Smart Reads team
P.S. Because I love spreading information so much. I want to give you three Free Audiobooks of your choice. Simply use this link http://audibletrial.com/travis to signup for a FREE audible account and get 2 Books Free Automatically. Then, if you want more, email me at hello@smartreads.co to let me know which other books you want and what you think of our mission and I will send you credits to download the books you want for free!
Why I Started Smart Reads
I started Smart Reads because every time I wanted to learn about something new I’d have to buy 20 books on the topic and spend way too long sorting through them and reading them all until I arrived at the big picture.Until I had enough perspectives to know who was just guessing, who was uninformed and who had stumbled upon something remarkable.
I wished someone else could just go in and figure that out for me and tell me what matters. That’s how smart reads was born. I want smart reads to be a company that does all that research up front. Sorts through all the content that is available on each topic and pulls out the most up to date complete understanding, then have people smarter than me package the best wisdom in an easy to understand way in the least amount of words possible.
For example I got a new puppy so I wanted to learn about dog training. I bought 14 different books about dog training and by the time I got through the first 5 and finally started getting the big picture on the best way to train my puppy she had grown up into a dog.
Yeah she’s well behaved. She doesn’t poop in the house. I can get her to sit and come when I call. But what if someone else went in and read all those books for me, found the underlying themes and picked out the best information that would give me the big picture and get me right to the point. And I’d only have to read one book instead of 15.
That would be amazing. I would save time. And maybe my dog would be rolling over, cleaning up after my kids and doing the dishes by now.That my friend, is the reason I started smart reads. Because I wanted a company I can trust to deliver me the best information in an easy to understand way that I can digest in under an hour. Because dog training is one of many subjects I want to master.
The quicker I can learn a wide variety of topics the sooner that information can begin playing a role in shaping my future. And none of us knows how long that future will be. So why not do everything we can to make the best of it and consume a ton of knowledge. And I figured all the better if I can also make a positive difference in the world.
That’s why we’re also building schools, planting trees and challenging ideas about copyright’s place in today’s world. Because as a company we have to be doing everything we can to support the ecosystem that gives us all these beautiful places to read our books.