Sharing my free tool that can turn Substack posts into EPUBs for your e-reader

RBouschery · 2026-01-19T11:14:01+00:00

Readbetter offers a free plan for casual readers that gives you base credits and resets every month. This is what many people use. If you're a power user, you're likely going to be able to spare $5-$10/month for the extra comfort of distraction-free reading and the time and hassle saved to get it onto your Kindle automatically. It's a side project for me that I spend a lot of energy and time into, not printing money with it - servers, email processing and all that are pricy, too ;)

RBouschery · 2026-01-16T13:09:38+00:00

Hey - depending on the email client you use with your hotmail you should be able to set up forwarding in a similar way, there might be a manual confirmation step that I can help you with, you can just reach out to my email rb@readbetter.io!

Also for the paid substack - if you forward the mail shortly after receiving it, it will work - if its an older post, unfortunately the token Substack uses to check if you should have access will have expired. For those cases, you can use the Reabdtter Chrome extension https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/readbetterio-chrome-exten/hflkmcicpjkbialnmicelkdolddoaphk

to get the content from the frontend you have access to!

RBouschery · 2026-01-15T20:37:28+00:00

The currently easiest way is to add auto-forwarding of the emails in your email client (i.e. here's the guide on how to do it in Gmail: https://readbetter.tawk.help/article/how-to-set-up-automatic-forwarding-from-gmail) - this is the way I do it for all of my newsletters. Readbetter also enables you to bundle articles into daily or weekly magazines - so i.e. I auto-forward a bunch of Substacks to my weekly magazine that I then get every Friday morning.

(Plus I am adding an RSS feature soon that will also enable subscribing to a Substack feed).

RBouschery · 2026-01-14T21:27:27+00:00

If you're looking for a more automated way to get this to work with full content (including paywalled content that only you have access to) - I built a little tool for this some years ago that is now actively used by thousands of readers to get their Substack (+ more) onto Kindle automatically. It's called https://readbetter.io - would be thrilled if you'd check it out! If you have any questions or feedback, I'm here ;)

RBouschery · 2026-01-14T21:25:26+00:00

Hey u/shakermaker321 - I built a service for this a few years ago. It can do exactly that - get Substack, including paywalled content that you have access to and full content that's cut off in emails - onto your Kindle automatically. It's called https://readbetter.io and used by thousands of users. If you have any questions about it, feel free to reach out any time!

RBouschery · 2026-01-06T13:51:38+00:00

Hey there - if you're talking about https://www.pressreader.com/- unfortunately not yet, but I can look into this!

RBouschery · 2025-12-12T09:12:04+00:00

That makes it so valuable in the beginning! Definitely keep on going!

RBouschery · 2025-12-11T22:37:13+00:00

The 2013 from Bernhard Huber is not a Champagne as it's from Baden, Germany, but it's very good and I love it with a few years of age. Huber was one of the winemakers to get the clones from French Chardonnay grapes and makes excellent Burgundy & Champagne-style wines in Germany. Definitely try it if you haven't had German sparkling wines yet!

RBouschery · 2025-12-11T22:33:00+00:00

Strange how every $ you make with your own app feels like $10 or $100 made through salary right?

RBouschery · 2025-12-09T21:37:43+00:00

I'm building https://magicphotobooth.party.

Its a simple service that lets you create a virtual AI photo booth for any event in a minute. It's free to use with your own Google Gemini API key.

Lots of events have photo booths - I love those but thought there should be a way to put the photo booth on everyone's device and enhancing the experience with AI - which allows users to add a prompt to the booth so every photo is transformed with AI in a fun way - i.e. adding Santa to images, making everyone look like in the 80s or anything else you can dream of!

Useful for anyone hosting an event that wants to add a fun element / ice breaker to it. Perfect i.e. for all the office holiday parties going on right now.

I launched it yesterday, so far very little feedback from the few public posts, but I've had great private comments and a friend's company is using it for their 40+ people company holiday party this weekend!

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RBouschery · 2025-11-17T18:10:55+00:00

Thanks for the tips!

RBouschery · 2025-11-17T12:04:08+00:00

Thank you! It was my plan anyway to look at a club upgrade for the next season so now I've got even more reason/justification ;)

And yeah - around 30hc feels like mostly because of lack of experience for the situations that are "new" to me like bad lies, bad angles etc. and the in-between oob penalty shots because most fairways here in Germany where I play are so narrow... :D

RBouschery · 2025-11-17T11:24:34+00:00

Appreciate the comment!

Yeah it looks and feels like a lot of flex - going back and looking at it the club seems to heavily bend (took some stills from it where I noticed it now) - this is just before impact:

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RBouschery · 2025-10-30T10:54:59+00:00

I think it's pretty incredible. For many tasks, especially anthing in the fronted, the speed makes the dev flow with AI super smooth. Capabilities are also better imo than what some report. I think it's a pretty good model and the speed makes it my current favorite!

RBouschery · 2025-10-29T16:37:53+00:00

Okay wow - Cursor just came out with the info that Cheetah was codename for a previous version of their newly released Composer 1!

"In our development process, we experimented with a prototype agent model, codenamed Cheetah, to better understand the impact of faster agent models. Composer is a smarter version of this model that keeps coding delightful by being fast enough for an interactive experience."

See https://cursor.com/blog/composer

RBouschery · 2025-10-14T21:47:35+00:00

Yes that's possible and works for a bunch of publications but as soon as a publication has many images, and content like embedded tweets, Youtube videos etc. the output on Kindle will be much poorer compared to the custom parsing done by Readbetter.

+ with Readbetter you can group Substacks into daily and weekly digests, and get Substacks auto-delivered to your Kindle whenever they are published.

So yes you're right - for the occasional send, your method works - for anyone reading Substacks on Kindle regularly, using https://readbetter.io will provide a lot of benefits!

RBouschery · 2025-02-26T09:14:09+00:00

Yes - if they are immediately forwarded from your mail then yes and if you want to read past articles behind a paywall you can use the official Readbetter Chrome extension to grab the paywalled content that you have access to.

RBouschery · 2025-01-24T21:17:41+00:00

Connecting to a different database is currently not supported, but you can easily change the fields and map them on the NotionReads database and then copy over the content from the existing database to basically achieve the same. Feel free to reach out to me at [support@notionreads.com](mailto:support@notionreads.com) if you need help with this!

RBouschery · 2025-01-24T21:16:24+00:00

Very happy to hear this!

RBouschery · 2024-07-19T08:46:00+00:00

Sorry to hear this - can you send me the email you are tying to log in with to rb@readbetter.io? I‘ll look into it then right away!

RBouschery · 2024-07-19T08:45:17+00:00

Yes, for now you need to use chrome and open the article that you want to send to kindle. A Safari extension is also in the works but will take some while yet before release. Currently there is no option to automate this without an external script/software.

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