The Next Chapter of Reader: Public Beta
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Readwise's official blog post announces the public beta of Reader, its all-in-one reading app positioned as a more powerful successor to classic read-later tools like Instapaper and Pocket. It describes Reader's unified handling of web articles, newsletters, RSS, X/Twitter threads, PDFs, and EPUBs, plus power-user features like keyboard navigation, text-to-speech, and an early GPT-3-based 'Ghostreader' assistant, and reflects on the difficulty of merging RSS with a read-later workflow.
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[](https://blog.readwise.io)[Menu ] The Next Chapter of Reader: Public Beta Daniel Doyon and Tristan Homsi | 14 Dec 2022
Today, we're excited to announce the public beta of our own, fully-integrated reading app (known as "Reader"). Get started for free at readwise.io/read .
What is Reader? In case you missed our original manifesto , Reader is a more powerful, more flexible version of the classic read-it-later app. If you've used Instapaper or Pocket, it's like those except built for 2023 and beyond. This means:
Read anything — Reader handles not only web articles saved for later, but also email newsletters, RSS feeds, Twitter threads, Twitter lists, PDFs, and EPUBs. You can even highlight the…
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