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Readwise

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Velocity6.3

Highlight capture, spaced review and a read-later app for saved articles

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Readwise launches Books, its own ebook store and reading app, a week after unbundling.

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◆Current state
Readwise now sells three products. A week after splitting Reader and Highlights into separate plans, it launched Readwise Books on October 30: an iOS and Android ebook store and reading app stocked by the major publishers, with reading sessions, following other readers, and Kindle and Goodreads imports. The same release added 13 Books tools to the Readwise MCP server, moved podcast transcripts onto the YouTube cleanup pipeline, and lets the Reader API set reading progress.
◆Where it's heading
Readwise is moving from a layer on top of other people's reading apps to owning the purchase and the reading itself. The unbundle, the free Books app and the shared MCP server point to separate entry products that all feed the same account. Reader keeps its weekly cadence of TTS, transcript and parsing work underneath.
◆Prediction
Expect weekly Books fixes and Kindle-import work, and a move from invite-only to open signup if the store holds up.

◆Recent moves

  1. 7d ago

    Phone text width, cross-device resume and GPT-6.1 BYOK models

    A week after Books launched, a polish release across Reader and the Books app: text width on phones, a jump-to-latest-position button when another device has read further, steadier Lifelike voice volume, faster first sync for large libraries and GPT-6.1 models for bring-your-own-key users. Mostly fixes, with the shared Reader and Books codebase visible in nearly every item.

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  2. 14d ago

    Readwise launches Books, an ebook store and reading app

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    Readwise Books takes the company from annotating books bought elsewhere to selling them. It follows the October 23 unbundling with a third product, tied to the rest through the same account and the shared MCP server.

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  3. 21d ago

    Readwise unbundles: Reader-only and Highlights-only plans

    After months of Reader feature work, Readwise unbundles: Reader and Highlights can now be bought separately, and the original app is renamed to match. Lifelike voices also reach 14 more languages and the Daily Review audio.

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  4. 28d ago

    Reader fixes: Listen start point, mobile rendering, 3D Secure

    A fixes-only week: Listen starting from the right spot continues the TTS cleanup, and most other items are iPhone and iPad rendering and gesture bugs. The 3D Secure checkout fix matters commercially, since those upgrades failed every time before.

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  5. 1mo ago

    Lifelike voices get steadier pacing as TTS stalls are fixed

    A week after Lifelike Voices launched in beta, Readwise retuned their pacing and fixed TTS stalls on stylized text and long RSS articles. Fixing playback this soon shows listening is a core Reader mode now, not a side feature. A parser fallback for truncated articles and a batch of mobile reading fixes fill out the release.

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  6. 1mo ago

    Lifelike TTS voices, reading themes and a faster Reader launch

    Text-to-speech gets 16 new beta voices with previews, a floating mobile player, and footnote markers skipped when read aloud. Reading themes and a faster app launch round out a release focused on the mobile Reader experience after the 2.0 rebuild.

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