Save, read, and highlight anything -- from articles to PDFs to tweets to newsletters (and much more) Brought to you by the @Readwise team.
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By default Ghostreader uses our built-in Fast/Thinking models, included in your subscription! These are quite smart and optimized to give VERY FAST answers.
However, yes, you can add your own OpenAI API key to use any OpenAI model you like :)
(at read.readwise.io/integration…)
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There are ton more suggested prompts and an entire Skills system built in, allowing you to easily reuse workflows you like.
Starter skills include: Research a topic, Digest my reading, Triage my inbox, Find similar documents... and of course you can write your own too!
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New in Reader: you can now chat with your entire library!
Ask Ghostreader to search for you, quiz you on your reading, organize your docs, and so much more. It's fully agentic.
Your answers will reference exact passages in any [article/tweet/PDF/book/video/newsletter] you’ve ever saved.
Live now on web/desktop: read.readwise.io/ghostreader
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Making Chat feel seamless on a phone-sized screen required a new bottom toolbar in the reading view.
It preserves all the functionality the previous one had, while incorporating the ability to ask Ghostreader questions while reading.
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New in Reader: Mobile Chat
Effortlessly ask questions while reading and receive a fast, accurate answer that links directly to the cited text.
Chat is aware of your position at all times -- it's like having an assistant reading over your shoulder.
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New in Reader: Quick Lookup
Long-press any word, name, or term and get its meaning instantly.
Reader synthesizes the author's own definition of terms, pulled from their usage in the document.
One more tap saves the definition, so what you look up actually stays with you.
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New in Reader: a major performance upgrade for web & desktop.
Scrolling feels a lot smoother.
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New in Reader: by popular request, you can now resize the right sidebar!
Especially useful for chatting while reading, and bigger monitors 🖥️
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As a single tweet, this will only save to your Readwise (not Reader!)
You can change the settings from read.readwise.io/integration…
.. but articles are a special case, maybe we will treat them specially!
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New: Reader for Tablets/iPad 📖
We rebuilt the iOS and Android apps from the ground up to support tablets as first-class devices.
Read with a two‑column view, better sidebars, native stylus support, and lots more!
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New in Reader: Ghostreader v3 on web!
Chat with any document, now:
* Much faster
* Links to the exact sources in your document
* Preset prompts (eg summarize, lookup) built in
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New in Reader: Offline v2
Your Library content now downloads for offline reading much faster and more reliably, with clearer controls and a dedicated Offline Documents screen.
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New in Reader: save your podcast episodes to get a permanent, highlightable transcript
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@erinmuur reviewed it and a few other Reader-compatible e-readers here! piped.video/M80E1hTPIFs?si=abR5…
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🆕 EPUB Performance Upgrades
We recently shipped a bevy of improvements to the way Reader handles EPUB files that make the reading experience more enjoyable ⬇️
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We just sent out our 100th edition of our weekly newsletter, Wisereads!
This edition was extra special, and features the full ebook Useful not True by @sivers (one of our favorite authors!)
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Pocket is officially shutting down tomorrow!
Here are a few things new users coming over from Pocket have said about Reader :)
Pocket users: You can save your entire Pocket archive into Reader in seconds.
Reader is under constant development, supports many features (save pdfs, tweets, epubs, etc, AI, filtering) that Pocket never did
PS- we're also bootstrapped & not going anywhere :)
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A lot of people ask us for e-ink recommendations that are compatible with Reader. After months of testing, @erinmuur has found a few favorites 📚🤳
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📊Not to mention parsing improvements -- making sure your articles show up cleanly and completely in Reader is always a top priority of ours.
Here's the list of domains we fixed parsing for in the past few months (spanning tens of thousands of articles):
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🤏 Minor Improvements
We've also shipped a ton of smaller features:
More Robust Position Tracking
Newer AI Models
Readwise MCP Server
Reader API Improvements
Mobile File Uploading
Desktop Deep‑Linking
Custom iOS Icons
Rebuilt @RoamResearch integration
And more!
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🧠 AI Themed Reviews
You can now effortlessly create themed reviews in Readwise to resurface highlights only related to a particular topic or interest (thanks to LLMs).
(eg your weekly review of highlights about productivity, happiness, parenting, or whatever your focus)
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🎧 Audio Reviews
You can now listen to your Readwise daily reviews on-the-go.
This includes high quality voices and natural transitions resulting in a personalized, podcast-like listening experience of the best ideas you've read and want to revisit.
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⚡️ Faster Document Opening
In addition to the overall speed of EPUBs, you'll now find that documents of any type open significantly faster!
Our philosophy is: First make it function; then make it fun; finally make it fast. As Reader is maturing, we're focusing more on fast.
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✒️ E‑Ink Mode
If you use Reader on an Android-based e-ink device, such as a Boox or Daylight, you should find the overall experience to be better optimized, including better black on white contrast and reduced animations.
Just enable E-Ink mode.
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💬 Chat with Document (Web Preview)
You can now chat with documents as you're reading them in the web app using advanced LLMs.
This is the first step of upgrading Ghostreader, and we're sharing this preview for early feedback!
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📜 PDF Clean View v2
Your newly uploaded PDFs now come with a much higher quality rich text version, as well as auto-fixed titles & authors.
Read, highlight, and listen to PDFs as if they were any other reflowable document.
No more squinting or pinching to zoom!
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📚 EPUBs v2
You can now read ebooks with a dedicated "long‑form" user interface, 10x+ faster speed , chapter breaks, and dozens of formatting fixes.
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Additionally, the Reader icon will also automatically adapt to any custom tints you may be using as part of iOS 18:
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New in Reader: Customizable app icons 🖼️
You can now choose your preferred icon within the Reader mobile app preferences:
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📃 Parsing Fixes
Since the last update, we've fixed known parsing issues on all of the following domains (across tens of thousands of articles):
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As part of this latest round of TTS enhancements, we also fixed a bunch of bugs around progress tracking and added a more accessible button on mobile.
You can now quickly initiate TTS anywhere in the document with one tap:
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🗣️ Text-to-Speech v3
We've shipped our most life-like voices to date thanks to the new Kokoro model. You can test drive these by choosing English - V8.
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✍️ Frontmatter Summaries
We've made Ghostreader summaries more accessible on mobile! You can now see summaries at the top of the document when you open it, or by long-pressing the document title from the list view:
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📝 Apple Notes Export
We've launched support for one of our most-requested integrations! As of today, you can now export your highlights to Apple Notes.
To get started, head here on desktop: readwise.io/apple_notes
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📺 YouTube v2
We've added a handful of improvements to YouTube videos in Reader, including:
📄 Automatically enhanced transcripts, with more logical formatting, punctuation, and paragraph breaks.
🖼️ Resizable video players.
🌎 Choose your transcript language. If a video includes multiple subtitles on YouTube, you can now pick the language of your choice.
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As part of this feature, you'll also find the option to "Find Similar Highlights" and synthesize their takeaways at the top of every highlight in Readwise:
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You can chat with your highlights on desktop at: readwise.io/chat
Or on the latest version of the Readwise mobile app:
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💬 Chat with Highlights
You can now chat with your entire library of highlights (from Kindle, Reader, and any other connected app) directly in Readwise!
Looking for a specific tweet you saved but can’t remember the exact words? Hoping to see connections across different domains on a particular idea you've been capturing over the years?
Chat with highlights makes it possible:
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Drumroll for 1st, please... 🥁
Your favorite Wisereads book this year was @kadavy 's Digital Zettelkasten 🎉 This was both the most saved book and had the highest percentage of highlighters.
Can't say we're surprised, you organizational overachievers 🤓
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In 3rd, we've got @toddhenry with The Brave Habit — over 13% of readers who saved this to their account found a salient insight to highlight. ✍️
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In the 4th spot, it's a timeless classic recommended by both @farnamstreet and @AliAbdaal — How to Live on 24 Hours a Day ⏱️
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Each week, we chose a book to share—either a preview, or the full text of a public domain or indie book.
Let's see which books users liked the most👇
Coming in 5th, is Troubled by @robkhenderson. 11% of users who saved this document to their account started reading and took at least one highlight.
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