💡 WiseUp! Vol. 12 — World Book Day, a chance to test our new project & bookish tips

📍 Let's start with a reading recommendation

How a Leatherbound Book is Made

We’re celebrating World Book Day with a cozy behind-the-scenes video from one of our favorite authors, Brandon Sanderson, showing how artisans craft premium leather-bound books—a "how-it’s-made" love letter to physical books. “During the digital age, what makes a book has become a little bit more nebulous. Is it the physical product? Is it the words in the product?... I love a good leatherbound book. Something about the way my mother’s leatherbounds sat on her shelf told a story just by being there; that having that object was important. Putting it there, displaying it, meant something.” Add to Reader

From the support inbox

Have questions about using Readwise or Reader in your workflow? We'd love to be your guide! Reply to this email with your question and you might be featured in an upcoming issue. Even if your question isn’t featured, we’ll respond to every message.

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❓ A Reader question from Justin Y:

What are some creative ways to use LLM when reading?

Need a quick refresher on that minor character in a dense novel? Use Ghostreader’s x-ray.

Select the character’s name (or a passage), invoke Ghostreader—press G on desktop or tap the ghost icon on mobile—and choose Internal x-ray. In seconds, you’ll get their backstory, appearance, role, and relationships, perfect for jogging your memory without leaving the page. Pro tip: You can use this for places and terms, too!

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❓ A Readwise question from Dan M:

Can I see the date of when I made a highlight?

You can see when a highlight was first imported or last reviewed—great for tracking your engagement over time. On desktop, select a highlight and hover over the dot in the top-left corner: for unreviewed highlights, you’ll see the import date; for reviewed ones, the last reviewed date.

📖 New help doc of the week

Build your Library with Goodreads

In honor of World Book Day, Cayla rejuvenated the documentation for Readwise’s integration with Goodreads. Learn how to link your accounts and automatically add Supplemental Highlights to Readwise for all of the books you’ve marked as Read.

Read the guide

🎬 New video of the week

The most underrated iOS 18 feature

If you want to read more while you’re on-the-go, this hidden feature in iOS 18 just might help! In her latest video, Erin will teach you how to turn it on and why it works.

Add to Reader

📰 April 12-18 updates

What's new in Reader and Readwise

🤖 NEW! MCP Server — You can now use our MCP server to query your Readwise highlights directly with large language model clients like Claude and Cursor.

🔀 Fixed Kindle Digests — Send to Kindle now respects metadata overrides, thanks to Piotr. If you change the title or author of a document, then send it to your Kindle to read as a digest, the metadata will be correct.

✍️ Fixed Editing Metadata — Arek fixed a bug on iOS where the edit metadata button wasn’t responding. You should now be able to update titles, authors, etc.

🏠 Fixed Home Views — If you’ve got lots of filtered views, you’ll now see all of them in the home screen layout menu, thanks to an update from Arek.

🛜 Parsing Updates — Kryzs improved how Reader handles documents from seekingalpha.com, towardsdatascience.com, nature.com, and spectrum.ieee.org.

👍 Featured finds

From the support team

In honor of World Book Day, the support team shares its all-time favorite reads:

Something suspenseful & atmospheric 🌫️

• 👻 Romi’s rec: Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez | A gothic road-trip into Argentina’s darkest secrets.
• 💔 Abi’s rec: The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman | Love, loss, and one lighthouse keeper’s impossible choice.

Something time-bending & futuristic 🚀

• ⏳ Angie’s rec: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut | War, aliens, and time-loops—darkly comic, forever relevant.
• 🧬 Eleanor’s rec: The Octagonal Raven by L. E. Modesitt Jr | Gene-elite intrigue where privilege meets conspiracy.

Something about friendship & frontiers 🤝

• 🔥 Erin’s rec: Sula by Toni Morrison | A fierce bond tested by betrayal and self-reinvention.
• 🌍 Cayla’s rec: Shades of Magic trilogy by V. E. Schwab | Parallel Londons, blood-magic, loyalty that spans worlds.

Something introspective & enlightening 💡

• 🧠 FDC’s rec: Behave by Robert Sapolsky | From neurons to nations—the biology behind every impulse.
• 🌿 Max’s rec: Consolations by David Whyte | Poetic reflections that uncover the solace in everyday words.

💬 From the Readwise group chat

If it's not a book in the mail, we hope it's a potato 🥔

Ever since we fell down the rabbit hole of reading Slime Mold Time Mold's "Potato Riffs" experiment, we've been a bit preoccupied with spuds. Just ask Dan or Tristan, who recently discovered that you can mail a loose potato in the US.