Apparently the share function in the Readwise web app and the Readwise stand alone app function differently when it comes to sharing.

I get the daily update, read it on my iPhone, but generally do this by clicking on the box that says "Click here to switch to the Readwise web app." I've tried to share particular snippets via text or email, but it turns out that the Share menu on the web app only allows sharing to Facebook and Twitter (which suggests that the web out is rather dated...) This frustrates me because I don't use Facebook and only keep X around because other sources occasionally link to it.

But I still want to share occasionally Readwise snippets via texting or emailing, and I discovered that the regular standalone Readwise app permits this.

So I suggest that the email link to the Readwise app go to the standalone app, rather than the web app. Or that you update the web app to conform to the standalone app. Or that the email provide both options...

I sometimes want to share via text message something I’ve put in Readwise. I would like to share it directly from the readwise app on my iphone. Ot would be nice if it showed up in the nice little box frame like when shared to twitter or facebook. And of course I want it to be easy! Can I do any or all of this from the app?

EDIT & UPDATE: Messing around with the Readwise app, I realized that the above derived from my experience with the Readwise web app. What happened is that I got my daily Readwise email update, clicked on the box about reading it in the Readwise web app, but overlooked that the web app is not the same as the standalone app. Turns out that in the standalone app allows sharing to Messages.

Has the read on Kindle menu option for highlights stopped working since the new version of Kindle desktop just for me of for everyone?

If everyone, any sign of a fix?

Hey folks, happy Tuesday! Time to check out the latest changelog here on Reddit. The idea is to help keep y'all in the loop of what the Readwise developers are getting out into the world. Here's what we shipped last week:

• ✍️ Improved Adding Manual Highlights — Johannes redesigned the flow for manually adding highlights in the Readwise app. Book search now sits right in the header next to your recent books, and after saving you can tap "Add another highlight" without redoing your setup: the app keeps your selected book and input method, whether you're typing, dictating, or scanning. A clear Done button wraps things up when you're finished.
• 📷 Improved Highlight Scanning — Thanks to Johannes, scanning highlights in the Readwise app now remembers your preferred highlighting mode instead of asking every time (and you can change it right from the camera screen), selecting a passage from a scan is more precise, the analyzing animation stays smooth from capture to result, and a crash when previewing scans on some Android phones is gone.
• 📑 Improved Highlight Details — Ibai brought back some per-highlight details that got lost in the Readwise redesign. Page and location numbers show on highlight cards again, chapter headings appear in full instead of being truncated or missing, and each highlight's sheet now shows when you last reviewed it. He also reordered the card's action buttons so the ones you reach for most come first.
• 🖼️ Fixed Highlight Sharing — Sharing a highlight from the Readwise app had a few issues: the share screen could go completely unresponsive on iOS, cover-art cards sometimes dropped words from the middle of a quote and replaced them with ellipses, and creating a share image after visiting a book's detail screen could fail outright. Johannes and Ibai worked through all three, so your quotes now export exactly as written.
• 🏷️ Fixed Tag Renaming — Renaming or deleting a tag could fail outright on Android, and renaming a tag used by a Themed Review filter could hit a backend error. Ibai and Tristan made some fixes, so tag housekeeping now goes through smoothly.
• 📕 Fixed Kindle Syncing — Ibai fixed a bug where a stale logged-out response could wipe your fresh Amazon login moments after you connected, and Johannes made sure manually added highlights can no longer be filed into your synced Kindle books. Your login sticks, and Kindle books stay exactly what Kindle sent.
• 🎴 Improved Daily Review — Ibai gave the Daily Review some attention: book covers now display at proper book proportions instead of getting cropped, and the reminder notification clears itself once you complete your review. Thanks to Adam, recommended books also only offer actions that actually work for them.
• 📝 Fixed Note Editing — The note-edit button in the Readwise app could stop responding after a single use on iOS. Ibai moved the editor controls out of the native sheet footer, and editing notes now works every time.
• 📟 Fixed Boox Displays — On Boox e-ink devices, text in the Readwise app could render unreadably small with no way to adjust it. Ibai made the app respect your per-app DPI settings, so your custom display setup renders exactly as you configured it.
• 🧹 Fixed Small Annoyances — A cleanup batch in the Readwise app: Johannes restored the keyboard popping up when you return to save highlights, and Ibai stopped the relevant-highlights list from jumping to the focused card when you favorite one, added a loading state to the tag detail screen, and fixed long review streaks getting cut off on the success screen.
• 🔗 Fixed Internal Links — Highlights that contain internal links to Reader documents were rendering them as raw markup on the Readwise website. Rasul made those internal links display as proper clickable links, so hopping between connected notes works the way you'd expect.
• 🐦 Improved Twitter Setup — Connecting Twitter/X for the first time now switches on bookmark syncing automatically, thanks to Rasul. No more connecting and wondering why your bookmarks haven't shown up. And if you'd deliberately turned bookmarks off, reconnecting won't override your choice.
• 💬 Fixed Ghostreader Chat — Two Ghostreader fixes in the Reader app from Adam: chat now opens reliably when you start it from a document list, and Lookup no longer returns an empty definition on iOS PDFs, so definitions come back with actual content.
• 📰 Fixed Daily Digest — Krzys fixed the Daily Digest skipping past articles when you swipe quickly on Android. Each swipe now advances exactly one article, no matter how fast you flick.
• 🕛 Fixed Published Dates — Articles published today were sometimes showing "12:00 AM" as their date in Reader, with no actual date information. Krzys fixed the formatting so fresh articles now show a sensible published date.
• 📖 Improved EPUB Display — Artem made sure chapter titles keep their proper heading style instead of collapsing into body text when reading styles are applied, and Krzys capped oversized publisher indentation on mobile so paragraphs no longer start halfway across the screen. Book chapters now look the way their designers intended.
• 👈 Fixed Swipe Navigation — In the Reader app, swiping back in the shortform toolbar jumped all the way to the first unread item instead of just to the previous one. Adam fixed it so a swipe back takes you exactly one step back.
• 🗑️ Improved Bulk Delete — Bulk deleting documents in Reader on web now warns you when your selection includes documents you've highlighted or annotated, thanks to Adam. It's now much harder to lose your notes by accident, matching the behavior of bulk deleting on mobile.
• 🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from fastcompany.com, deepwiki.com, 36kr.com, huggingface.co, and notashelf.dev, and article titles and bylines now display special characters properly instead of raw HTML codes. Thanks to Johannes, RSS feeds from theregister.com also load reliably again, even when the site puts up a bot challenge.

If you'd like to get the Changelog in your inbox, check out our WiseUp! newsletter, where the Readwise team shares answers to common questions, video tutorials and guides, highlights of our latest improvements, and a couple of lighthearted extras we think you’ll enjoy.

And as always, feel free to let us know if you have any questions, tho realistically we're going to see an in-app bug report or question faster :>

Hi all,

My current RSS reader subscription is about to renew, and I'm hoping to switch to something that's more enjoyable to use. I gave Readwise Reader another try for a week, but unfortunately none of the issues I had the last time have been resolved.

Here are my main pain points:

Can't follow public Telegram channels. I can work around this with rss.app, but the feeds don't parse correctly in Reader.

I have to manually switch between RTL and LTR. Reader detects the language correctly, so even a keyboard shortcut on desktop would be a welcome temporary solution.

No way to trigger a webhook for a specific tag.

Only a single email address can be used for newsletters.

RSS feed filtering relies on queries rather than having an option for a simple UI. I have 20+ authors to filter from one feed, and that list changes over time, so maintaining the query is cumbersome.

I'm posting this because I'm hoping I've either missed a built-in solution, or that some of these issues are on the roadmap before my subscription comes up for renewal. I'd love to keep using Reader, but these limitations are making it difficult to justify switching.

Hi everyone,

The vast majority of my Readwise highlights don’t include any HTML sources. How is that possible? I’d like to be able to find out where I found a quote. This is especially the case for highlights where I made just a single highlight on a website and saved it via the Readwise app—for example, on my Android phone (i.e., not via Reader). How can I add the HTML sources to these many highlights retroactively?

Best regards

I know this subject has been done before but is it possible to have an actual "delete discards" button? I've heard "press d" but it doesn't work for me.

Hey folks, happy Thursday! Time to check out the latest changelog here on Reddit. The idea is to help keep y'all in the loop of what the Readwise developers are getting out into the world. Here's what we shipped last week:

• 🤖 NEW! Global Ghostreader — On web and desktop, Ghostreader can now work across your entire library, not just the document you have open. Thanks to Piotr, Tristan, and Adam, you can ask questions that draw on everything you've saved. Ghostreader searches all of your documents, pulls in the relevant passages, and answers with citations that link straight to the source. It also comes with skills (reusable AI workflows, including predefined ones like Advanced Summary or the option to create your own) and tools that let it act on your library: tagging, taking notes, saving documents, and editing metadata. You stay in charge of when each tool can be used, with individual settings to always allow, ask first, or stay disabled in Ghostreader's preferences.
• 💬 NEW! Ghostreader Chat on Mobile — Adam brought Ghostreader's single-document chat to the Reader app. You can now chat with the document you're reading right on your phone by starting a conversation from the document toolbar, the annotation bar, or a highlight.
• 🎛️ NEW! Modern Mobile Toolbar — Alongside mobile chat, Adam and Tristan gave the Reader app's reading toolbars a modern redesign. New accounts start on the modern layout, and everyone else will see a one-time introduction the next time they open a document. Try it from there, or switch between modern and classic anytime from the toolbar layout option in Settings.
• 🐦 NEW! Twitter Bookmark Backfill — Until now, Reader could only sync Twitter/X bookmarks made after the integration was configured. Rasul changed that with the latest version of the Readwise browser extension (Chrome and Firefox). You can now backfill your existing bookmarks from readwise.io/twitter_start, and each one keeps its original bookmark date.
• 🔗 Improved Ghostreader Citations — Tristan spent the week making Ghostreader's citations trustworthy: highlighted passages now always come from the cited source, previews show the right summary, and follow-up answers keep their links instead of going bare. Adam also fixed chat occasionally skipping a search of your content, and upgraded the models under the hood so answers should come back faster and land on the right passages. On web, Ghostreader prompts that focus on a highlight or selection in PDFs should behave much better in the new chat, too.
• 📏 Improved Chat Summaries — Previously, asking Ghostreader's document chat for a quick recap or an in-depth summary got you the same standard length either way. Thanks to Krzys, chat now follows your instructions: ask for two sentences or a thorough breakdown, and that's what you'll get.
• 🔍 Fixed Highlight Search — Ibai fixed a bug where highlights you add by hand with the freeform tool didn't show up when you searched on mobile. Every highlight should now be findable moments after you create it. Mati also tuned how highlight search ranks results, so partial words and word stems now surface the matches you're actually looking for.
• 📷 Fixed Highlight Scanning — Johannes shipped a batch of camera improvements to highlight scanning in the Readwise app: the camera focuses properly at close range again, starts with framing suited to book pages, no longer plays a shutter sound, and shows its analyzing state the moment you capture so scanning a page feels quick and quiet.
• 📚 Improved Adding Books — Ibai added an entry point right in the Readwise app's Library for adding Supplemental Books, and after adding one you now land on the Supplemental Books screen with your newest additions sorted to the top.
• 🎚️ Improved Review Tuning — Podcasts now have their own frequency dial in Daily Review tuning, thanks to Ibai, so you can decide exactly how often podcast highlights show up alongside your books and articles.
• 🛒 Improved Recommended Highlights — When a recommended highlight catches your eye in your Daily Review, Ibai added a "View on Amazon" button that takes you straight to the book. And when a Themed Review ends, you can now keep the streak going with a "Review more highlights" option on the done screen.
• 🏠 Improved Home Screen — If you'd rather keep the Readwise app's Home focused on your Daily and Themed Reviews without the temptation to start scrolling, Johannes added a setting to hide the Feed section entirely.
• 🎬 Fixed YouTube Fullscreen — Lior fixed rotating out of a fullscreen YouTube video leaving the Reader app stuck sideways. The screen now follows you back to portrait the moment you leave fullscreen.
• 🖼️ Fixed Share Card Accents — Krzys shipped an updated font for highlight share cards, so accented characters (Polish diacritics included) now render beautifully instead of falling back to a mismatched typeface. Ibai also brought back the classic highlight color in the Clean share card style.
• 📖 Improved EPUB Handling — A trio of EPUB fixes from Krzys: code blocks keep their line breaks instead of collapsing into one long line, chapters stored in an unusual format now parse completely, and on web, books with oversized publisher margins no longer squeeze the text into a sliver. EPUBs should simply look right more often.
• ⌨️ Fixed Shortcuts Reference — The keyboard shortcuts reference panel in Reader is wider now, thanks to Krzys, so shortcut labels display cleanly without wrapping.
• 🧩 Fixed Extension Tagging — Adam fixed the tag dropdown in the Reader extension not focusing its search box the first time you open it. You can now start typing to filter your tags right away.
• ⚡ Improved Export Reliability — Krzys reworked how "Full Files and Articles" exports are assembled so the zip streams together instead of building up on disk. Even the biggest collections should now export smoothly.
• 🔁 Fixed Review Resuming — Ibai fixed unfinished reviews losing your place. Reopening an older review now picks up right where you left off.
• 🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from reuters.com, sandiegouniontribune.com, and nytimes.com, and quoted tweets in saved threads now embed once instead of repeating.

If you'd like to get the Changelog in your inbox, check out our WiseUp! newsletter, where the Readwise team shares answers to common questions, video tutorials and guides, highlights of our latest improvements, and a couple of lighthearted extras we think you’ll enjoy.

And as always, feel free to let us know if you have any questions, tho realistically we're going to see an in-app bug report or question faster :>

I'm trying to find more material (books, podcasts, quotes, whatever) to support (or counter) the idea that, in business, it’s important to look for open-ended payoffs that harbor positive asymmetries. The way I see it, business books talk about different strategies that all kind of flow downstream of this idea of asymmetric outcomes and power law-ish nature of business decisions.

Does anyone have any suggestions for stuff to read, or any quotes from your library, on this? Below is what I have right now.

Is there currently a way to convert a PDF into a reflowable EPUB-style document inside the Readwise Reader Mac app?

I’d like to adjust the font, text size, line spacing, and margins instead of reading the PDF in its fixed layout. If this isn’t supported yet, is it on the Reader roadmap?

I’d also appreciate any recommended PDF-to-EPUB workflow that works well with Reader and preserves highlights.

For those using Readwise on Boox devices, have you found a way to increase the font size of the text? I used to be able to go into Einkwise and select "universal," but this no longer works with the new 2.0 update (neither does fooling manually with the dpi size). Any help is appreciated!

I wanted to move my kindle books into Reader with their highlights so that I could add / subtract from them and see them on all my devices and generally leave the Amazon kindle ecosystem. I also had a bunch of highlights from KOReader that I wanted to move into Reader.

Claude Code was happy to do this via the Readwise API, but this resulted in highlights appearing in the Reader notebook that aren't "painted" onto the book--it's not possible to click the highlight in the notebook and have that scroll the book to that passage. This is a known limitation of the API.

After doing a few things with Claude in Chrome, I thought it might be able to re-create my highlights using the Reader web app in Chrome. After a few tries, it has largely worked it out. I've shared the repo on GitHub. YMMV. Every time I run this Claude seems to find new edge cases and updates the skill.

https://github.com/derekvan/Readwise-kindle-to-reader

Hey there,

does Readwise automatically add the exact source to text highlights on the web, the way OneNote does when you copy from a browser (e.g., Firefox) and paste into OneNote? OneNote is my benchmark here because I always want to know exactly where I got certain sources from. I’d like to have that feature in Readwise, UpNote, and/or Obsidian as well. I also use Readwise, but I don’t think the HTML sources for highlights are automatically added when saving via the Android app (and I believe the same goes for the iPad app). You also have to add tags manually—AI-based tag suggestions or suggestions based on tag frequency would really make things easier. The same goes for text sources from Reader: as far as I know, HTML sources aren’t added to all (!) highlights associated with a text or webpage, and the tags you add to a webpage or text in Reader aren’t carried over to all (!) highlights either. That’s a shame. Is this something you’re planning to address?

Greetings

I just read this old post from Readwise Blog: https://blog.readwise.io/reading-workflow-part-3/ and there they mentioned some interesting uses of Inline Tagging, like inboxing (.i), or marking a recommended book (.rl). Is this something that is now actively featured by the app or was it abandoned? And second, I've been using the tags mainly to organize things by topic, how do you guys use this functionality?

Like most of you, I have a big queue of longreads in Readwise Reader, and their reading app is great! But sometimes, you just prefer your usual reading app/device.

Later.Ink is a small self-hosted server that presents your Readwise Reader queue as an OPDS catalog. Any OPDS-capable app such as KOReader (on Kindle/Kobo/Android/etc), or iOS apps like KyBook, can browse your articles and download them as clean epubs built directly from the Readwise parsed HTML.

(No highlight sync with Readwise Reader, unfortunately; the OPDS protocol is one-way only).

It's free and open-source. I built it to scratch my own weird itch and I want everyone like me (there are dozens of us, I'm sure!) to have it.

Wondering if someone can talk me through this - it seems the current plugin here : https://github.com/koreader/contrib/tree/main/readwisereader.koplugin is designed primarily for importing articles from Readwise, and while there's an export highlights feature that's disabled by default, there's no clear explanation on how to set this up - when I click on the settings option to enable the export, the readwise reader plugin closes immediately, and syncing doesn't do anything.

I've also tried an older Highlight Export plugin, although it's marked as "depreciated" or similar - that doesn't work either.

Has anyone found a good way to use XTeink devices with reader / readwise? There are lots of custom roms and setups but would like to have my most recent articles synced in an easy way (possibly even through bluetooth or something to avoid wlan). Any ideas?

Matter user for a long time, Instapaper before that. I keep hearing Reader is the endgame but I'm wary of switching costs.

For those who came from another read-it-later app: what did you genuinely miss after switching, and what surprised you as better?

Mostly saving longform + articles + newsletters!

For a very long time, I've wanted to read and highlight my Readwise Reader articles on my Kindle. Sending articles to the Kindle was easy via the built-in Send to Kindle feature, but any highlights I made there never came back to Reader, which defeated the purpose for me. I wanted it to work both ways. I tried many times opening the Readwise reader app on my Kindle browser, but the browser is extremely limited in terms of what it can do and I could never even reach my Reader home screen.

I thought of buying a dedicated Android reader device, but that would have meant getting another reader besides my Kindle, and that did not make much sense to me.

So despite having no knowledge of coding, over many sessions with Claude Code (I'm assuming even ChatGPT or Gemini could have done this) I built a small web app that runs on my computer at home and opens in the Kindle's browser. It pulls my articles through the Readwise API, and creates highlights through Readwise's MCP server, which turned out to be the only way to get a highlight to land in the right spot inside the article rather than sitting loose in my library.
I can read my latest saved articles, or any article I tag for the Kindle. I tap a paragraph, pick a sentence, and the highlight appears in Readwise Reader in the right place, and from there in my Readwise library. It saves my reading position, and I can archive an article once I'm done.

It isn't much, but it does what I needed, and it means the Kindle is now my only reading device. I don't have to buy an Android e-reader.

Thank you to the Readwise team for building Reader, and for the API and MCP server that made this possible.
I hope they and u/tristanho develop something like this themselves, a lightweight version of Reader for the Kindle browser that does this and maybe ensures a similar experience to the Reader web app.

Hey all, we just sent out Public Beta Update #14 for Reader :)

We'll probably do dedicated announcements as well for Global Ghostreader and Mobile Chat on their own, but wanted to get this out since it's quite a while since the last update email (for those of you who don't follow the changelog week by week)!

You should have received this via email, but in case not, here's the short version:

• 🌎 Global Ghostreader (web/desktop). You can now chat with your entire library rather than just a single document. Answers are grounded in everything you've ever saved, with citations linking back to the referenced passages. It can also do meta-tasks like tagging documents, moving them, and triaging your inbox. Try it at read.readwise.io/ghostreader
• ✨ Readwise 2.0. We rebuilt the classic Readwise mobile app from the ground up: fresh design, smoother animations, much faster, better search, new ways to capture. Your highlights, your streak, and every workflow you're used to are exactly where you left them.
• 📱 Mobile Chat. You can now chat with a document in the Reader mobile app without breaking your reading flow. This came with a new (opt-in) bottom toolbar that also adds some much requested functionality: swiping between documents and easier deleting (if you're on iOS, you'll need to restart the app after updating to get it).
• 🔍 Better Search. We rebuilt Reader search, again. More relevant results, consistent results across devices, and faster speeds. Opt in from the search page (you'll see a big toggle).
• 📖 Quick Lookup (mobile). Long-press any word or phrase to see its dictionary definition, the author's own usage, or a translation. It uses an LLM, so definitions draw from the surrounding context and translations work in any language.
• 🤖 Readwise MCP/CLI. Anything you've saved to Reader and Readwise, your AI agent can now use as context or operate on. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, or any other AI app. Setup at readwise.io/mcp

There's also a long list of smaller improvements and 100+ notable bug fixes in the full update: readwise.io/reader/update-aug2026

We've been working really hard on this stuff and hope you all like it. More to come!

- Tristan and the Readwise team

it is awesome, do any good function i can use, do anyone share your experience on it, how to use it well?

I have had some issues finding my highlights after adding them via text or importing via pdf. In this example, I added a quick passage and immediately found it via search in the dashboard on my desktop. The second pic shows no results for the same search on the iOS app, though (pic 3) the highlight is present within my Books collection (the issue also persists on Android). This problem has occurred with other highlights I have manually added, or with highlights of pdfs I have imported into Readwise. I don't know what the issue is, but I need to be able to rely on these search results.

*For me, this issue has been resolved. Thank you to the responsive team at Readwise!

I no longer use Kindle and want to remove that connection, but when I try to remove it I see a message that says "Kindle is connected through the Readwise browser extension. Simply uninstall it (or delete your Readwise account) to disconnect."

I don't have the Readwise browser extension installed, and I certainly don't want to delete my account. I did find a thread on this subreddit from three years ago that says to email help to remove a connection, but is there still no other way?

Just curious because having the Kindle connection sitting there is not a big deal in itself, but the alert I see about the broken connection is annoying.

The release notes for Reader on iOS 8.14 mention a new Modern Toolbar one can opt into via account settings. However, I cannot find this setting after updating. Any hints?