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Readwise Reviews

1. Klaus

   over 2 years ago
   Great help to review books

   I imported my kindle highlights, as many others. Now I daily review some highlights (thanks to a dashboard, I am motivated). And where I didn't create highlights, as I only listened to the audiobooks, I get the highlights from others. It also allows to create beautiful quotes. It adds the book cover and matches quote and background with colours found on the book title! Really nice!

   👍 Pros:    Review books|Beautiful quotes|Dashboard motivates

Worldcat mentions (64)

• Happy Dewey Decimal System Day! 🥂🎉🗃️

  Look up editions and search for books within a given subject https://worldcat.org/. Source: 6 months ago

• Question regarding interlibrary loans

  If you're in the US, you can look up the book in Worldcat (https://search.worldcat.org/) to get a sense of what libraries actually hold the books you are looking for. When US libraries are doing ILL, they are often using a backend system that is working with the information in that catalog. Source: 6 months ago

• How to Find Children's Books in Foreign Languages?

  Also check out worldcat.org . Type in a title, look for 'View All Formats and Editions' in the lower right of a listing. You can see if the book is offered in your choice of language or format. Click to go deeper into a specific offering and reveal all the details. Now you can get a ISBN number and can search the internet with that number. Source: 9 months ago

• Controversial porn books in US middle schools

  I think worldcat.org has a database that can tell you some school libraries that have a book. Source: 11 months ago

• Recommendations for Books about Singapore w/Contrarian Views?

  Your future, my faith, our freedom: A democratic blueprint for Singapore by Chee Soon Juan. This book was published around 2000 and talks about the many issues with CPF, public housing, the overdependence on MNC in our economy, foreign talent, Singapore education, etc. It is hard to get hold of this book because it has been out of print for many years but you can find it in the NUS library. It is a brilliant and... Source: 11 months ago

Readwise mentions (81)

• FEATURE REQUEST: Get notes without logging in

  I'm between apps at the moment! I would have used Notion except it wasn't possible to use the app on an e-ink screen. I need an app I can compose a synopsis on at the same time as export Kindle highlights to using https://readwise.io/, which narrows the options. I'm looking at Logseq at the moment. Source: 11 months ago

• Pocket: It gets worse the more you use it

  Very much agree that Pocket has gotten worse as I've used it over the years. It's so bad I've mostly moved to the much better Readwise (https://readwise.io/). I'd be fully over if they actually supported a decent export (see below). It's sad because I'm probably in the 99th percentile of Pocket users in terms of usage and am happily paying them for Premium. I can't remember a significant improvement to Pocket in 2... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• What’s the best way to take notes while reading?

  I tend to read highlight and annotate using a Kindle, and subscribe to https://readwise.io/ to transfer my notes to the web. I would like to have the workflow to be able to write up summaries of books, if only for my own reference. At the moment reading my notes is like reading a book in itself. Source: 11 months ago

• How to take notes on technical books?

  Some of the things I am doing include highlighting using a Kindle, and with a subscription to https://readwise.io/ downloading those highlights to my laptop. It's possible to automatically orgnanise them into chapters and sections. Source: 11 months ago

• Looking for an app that will help me see my notes again.

  If it syncs with whatever notes app you're using Readwise might suit your needs. Source: 11 months ago