Readwise Reader 4+

UI Improvements — The front matter (top header, buttons, etc) in the document view got a big redesign courtesy of Kris and Johannes, with the summary showing in a toggle view above the document content. It’s now easier to start TTS from anywhere within the document — check out the new play button in the top right. The option to change appearance is now in the bottom sheet. Excessively long metadata is now truncated, Ghostreader summaries can be about twice as long, and emails look a lot nicer in the Daily Digest.

Discover Documents — Mati built an easy way to bulk add some of Reader’s most popular documents directly to your account, hand-curated by our Wisereads editor Abi. On the integrations front, Rasul fixed it so that tweets will now come in properly from Pocket. Imports from Pocket should also be noticeably faster for some users.

Export Everything — Thanks to Piotr, Reader's "Export PDFs and EPUBs" feature has been reworked to "Export full files and articles" which not only exports your uploaded files but also all of your Reader document HTMLs. Reader's public document list API now has a new html_content response data field enabled via the withHtmlContent query param. The Reader API also properly returns updated metadata instead of the original metadata.

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Previously:

* Reader now has a Trash Bin, where you can find all recently deleted documents and easily restore them

* New better "Return to reading position" feature while skimming any document :) Return to where you were reading, or jump to where you are now without any annoyance or confusion.

* We've updated the core local database for Reader, which will require a one time migration, but fix many bugs and improve performance.

* Tags should now load in the share sheet (when saving documents from another app) 10-100x faster!

* You can now view Enhanced Transcripts for youtube videos -- they'll be capitalized correctly with punctuation, paragraph breaks, etc. Perfect for highlighting your favorite moments from any video :)

* Highlighting Upgrades – You should now notice several subtle upgrades to the highlighting experience ​including better grabbing of leading and trailing punctuation, smoother cross-page highlighting in Paged Scroll mode on mobile, and, most importantly, the ability to resize existing highlights!

* Ghostreader v2​​​​​​ – You can now customize the default Ghostreader ​prompts as well as craft your own ​creating the potential for all kinds of clever AI use cases while you read. As part of this, Ghostreader is now much easier to access on mobile and we've refreshed the default prompts.

* You can now export your highlights for any document to your clipboard or share sheet on mobile.

* Many fixes to PDFs, including their progress tracking and showing their cover images

* We've reverted the default behavior in the reading view where you need to tap the bottom to open the action menu. You can still re-enable this behavior in your reading settings though.

* Highlighting should now be a lot more smooth/natural in this version :) No longer struggle to include punctuation or make the selection work just right.

* Many Text to Speech improvements:

* Nicer loading state (showing the cover) when opening books

* You can now read any document in the Paged Scroll mode! This is especially useful for books, where you can now simply tap the left or right edges of the screen to jump to the last/next page of content, rather than constantly scrolling. This should be familiar to reading in apps like Kindle, except it has our own innovation that allows you to highlight across pages effortlessly.