r/readwise

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'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.

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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

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!

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.

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?

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.

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

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.