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Why do you pay for Readwise? They must offer something different.


I wanted something more advanced than Pocket, which integrated with my Obsidian vault and had better highlighting features and voice, so it was a choice between Matter and Readwise Reader.

I went with Readwise because they were a bootstrapped company vs VC-funded Matter, but now I'm starting to wish I went with Matter because they've been shipping meaningful updates more reliably.

Also, I interviewer with Dan from Readwise and he totally ghosted me, so I may be a little bitter about that, ha.


Haha. Thanks. I would find any slowdown in their releases post-ghost to be satisfying, personally.


Not OP but I pay for Readwise because it works and this volunteer effort funding model always makes me nervous.

https://docs.omnivore.app/about/pricing.html




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