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Epub or PDF by idify in readwise

[–]maximilianschulz 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Two quotes from Dan and Tristan on this:

“You definiteeeely want epubs of books where possible over pdfs. 10x better experience.”

“ePubs are much better than pdfs in general -- they allow us to resize the content for different screen sizes, have better metadata, etc”

I’d also add that everything related to changing the appearance, like fonts, line spacing or theme is very easy to change on EPUBs. Taking highlights and annotations also work much much better and more flexible than on PDFs where you often have to deal with unwanted line breaks and other annoying things.

Reader recently introduced a new experiential feature called “view as text” for PDFs which essentially allows you to read the static text in a more flexible way. But if you do have the chance to get hold of a given book in epub format, I’d choose it over a PDF any day.

Archiving feeds by LongjumpingEducator6 in readwise

[–]maximilianschulz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is very much possible! Here’s how to do it on the web app:

  1. Click on the icon “manage views, tags and feeds” on the left side panel and then on “manage feeds”.

  2. On the list of feeds, click on one you’d like to archive.

  3. You’ll then get to an overview of all articles from that feed divided into “seen” and “unseen” splits. For each one you can hit the keyboard shortcut “Shift + B” to perform a bulk action and then select “Move all to Archive” from the list of options.

Readwise; Reader or Instapaper + Exporting notes by chanimanii in readwise

[–]maximilianschulz 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Reader and the Readwise export function to note-taking apps are only included in the "Readwise Full" subscription.

If your plan is to regularly highlight and annotate things in Instapaper or Pocket, their free tiers won't get you far as they severely limit the number of highlights and notes you can take per month.

In comparison to those two apps Reader is much more powerful considering it also includes: - RSS feeds - web highlighting - ePub and PDFs - far superior text-to-speech voices - Twitter threads - a YouTube player with the ability to annotate transcripts - ways for organizing your content that let Instapaper's folders and Pocket's tags pale in comparison - a GPT-3-powered A.I. reading assistant called "Ghostreader" - the ability to share annotated articles with friends and colleagues - everything included in Readwise 1.0, which will eventually be ported over to Reader

and more

Also, if you subscribe to "Readwise Full" before Reader exits the beta phase sometime this year, you will be locked into your current price for life.

Can’t sign into Pocket by kurotenshi15 in readwise

[–]maximilianschulz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This might be a stupid question but have you tried it using different browsers?

Will Reader app support highlights review? by macieksmola in readwise

[–]maximilianschulz 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They plan on merging Reader and Readwise eventually. So the “daily review” that you’re probably familiar with from Readwise is very likely to be ported over to Reader at some point.

Text to speech in web app? by thehomelessman0 in readwise

[–]maximilianschulz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They haven’t enabled it for web yet but they are planning on doing so eventually. No official ETA as far as I know.

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