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Ask HN: How do you synthesize books that you read?

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Re: Ask HN: How do you synthesize books that you read?

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Bit of a shameless plug but I've been thinking about this for a while and I recently built a free/open-source tool called Emdash [1] to tackle the problem. I’m a heavy ebook highlighter, but I found if I didn’t have a compelling way to review those highlights they fell out of my understanding. My tool uses on-device semantic embedding which allows you to peruse your collection and see related passages from other book…

This is a beautiful app - my problem with tools like this is I don't use a Kindle so ingesting highlights is painful, but I'll plan on giving this a shot nevertheless.

Re: Ask HN: How do you synthesize books that you read?

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I’m surprised that nobody mentioned Readwise in the comments. It’s such a good service if you read a lot of digital books and gives you 10 highlights from the bokks you’ve read everyday! Check it out: https://readwise.io/i/rishikesh2

Readwise reader is my go-to for articles; just hard to ingest from physical books.
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