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

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Two big swings in July and August, and since then Readwise has been paying the bill.

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◆Current state
Readwise shipped a full mobile rewrite in late July and library-wide Ghostreader a fortnight later, and the weekly changelogs since have been almost entirely repair. The August 28 week is typical: thirteen fixes against five real improvements, spread across EPUB handling, chart and video embeds, Ghostreader chat on both mobile platforms, and Boox e-ink devices. The one consistent addition each week is parsing coverage for more publishers.
◆Where it's heading
The fix list is a map of where the rewrite is still settling — pagination and layout stability on Android tablets, chat sheets and message sending on mobile, exports arriving with page CSS attached. Underneath that, small capabilities keep arriving quietly: Apple Books folder-EPUBs now upload, interactive charts render as linked images instead of an import notice, non-Latin titles survive the trip to Kindle. The company is broadening what it can ingest and export while stabilising what it rebuilt.
◆Prediction
Expect the weekly cadence to hold with fixes still outnumbering additions, and the remaining Boox and Android tablet issues to keep appearing until the mobile rewrite fully settles.

◆Recent moves

  1. 5d ago

    Apple Books EPUBs, chart embeds, and non-Latin Kindle titles

    Another repair week for the rewritten apps, but three items add reach rather than restore it: Apple Books folder-style EPUBs now pack themselves into a real book on upload, Datawrapper and Flourish charts render as linked images instead of an import warning, and Send-to-Kindle finally carries non-Latin titles. The rest is Ghostreader chat, Boox layout stability and export hygiene.

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  2. 12d ago

    Auto-scroll preference persists and Kindle disconnect works properly

    A pure maintenance week — fourteen fixes across Kindle sync, Pocket links, search and Twitter settings, with no capability a user could not reach before. It sits in the middle of the post-rewrite repair stretch.

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  3. 19d ago

    Faster manual highlight entry and steadier highlight scanning

    Manual highlight entry and highlight scanning both get faster, and Daily Review and EPUB display improve — the first week after the Ghostreader release where additions outnumber pure repair.

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  4. 26d ago

    Global Ghostreader reads and acts across your whole library

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    Ghostreader stops being scoped to the open document and starts working across the entire library, retrieving relevant passages and answering with citations back to the source. It also gains skills — reusable AI workflows — and tools that write to the library, each gated by an always-allow, ask-first, or disabled setting.

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  5. 1mo ago

    Mastery cards, Discards, and multilingual scanning restored on mobile

    The week after the mobile rewrite, spent restoring what it displaced — mastery cards, library discards, multilingual scanning and review frequency controls all coming back on mobile. Read against the rewrite, this is the first instalment of its cost.

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  6. 1mo ago

    Readwise 2.0 rebuilds the mobile apps from scratch

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    The iOS and Android apps are rebuilt from the ground up, carrying libraries, streaks, workflows, and Daily Review across while adding better search, a Stats screen, and new capture routes. It is the foundation the Ghostreader work lands on two weeks later, and the source of the fixes that follow.

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