Readwise announces Readwise Books. “We’ve built Readwise Books: our very own ebook store and app. In simple terms, you can think of it as a cross between the Kindle and Goodreads apps, where you can buy, read, and track books.”
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Uh, why would I want to gamify/stravafy the one thing that I like to do to relax? The last thing I need on relaxing is metrics.
I love the spirit behind building a better experience than what Amazon has done for both reading and community/discovery (particularly the latter)
I'm struggling a bit with what it looks like to leave my Kindle content behind and find a new e-reader as I def don't want to always read on my phone.
I wonder if anyone is working on integrating this with XTEink readers. If one of the open source firmwares supported this, it would be a big step forward.
A plug for bookclubs.com. Primarily a book club site, it also allows individual book tracking and also provides links for purchasing. I moved my book club from meetup.com and have been happy with the experience.
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