I’ve been using Readwise Books for 15 months. It’s finally public.

For a bit over a year now I've been reading all my books in a little app called Bookwise. That's 64 books over 340 hours of reading time. Until today the app was in a private beta, but today the app officially launched with a new name: Readwise Books. It's still invite-only1, so here are a whole bunch of invites. Depending on the device, the app will display the cover on the lockscreen. And holy shit, finally I can talk about it... It has been a long 15 months since they first invited me to the beta (after I'd annoyed them for ages to get invited in the first place). Bookwise was always the code name, and I will never not call it that. Readwise is becoming the masterbrand, with Readwise Highlights, Readwise Reader, and Readwise Books. The plan is for Books to eventually become their flagship product and, maybe someday, simply be called Readwise. Readwise originally launched as an app to save highlights from physical books, EPUBs, blog posts and other content. It's how I created a…