Readwise Books: Step Three of Our Master Plan
Daniel Doyon
Readwise Books is a new app where people can buy, read, and track books in one place. It also tracks reading sessions and offers tools for notes, highlights, and sharing. The company hopes the app will make digital reading better and help people read more.
28 Oct 2026
Given everything going on with artificial intelligence, we also see a historical precedent suggesting this reframe is imminent. It's hard to believe, but not too long ago, "working out" wasn't even a thing. People simply got their workouts at... work. Then much of manual labor was automated away, giving rise to office jobs, sedentary lifestyles, and then aerobics. Now machines are coming for cognitive labor, and it won't be long before the need to exercise our minds is as commonplace as getting 10,000 steps per day. And reading, especially reading in long, unbroken stretches, is the oldest, cheapest, and best-evidenced way to do just that.