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Readwise takes on Amazon’s Kindle and Goodreads with its new app for book lovers

TechCrunch • Mon, 02 Nov 2026

Readwise Books combines an ebook store, reading tracker, detailed reading stats, and AI features in a bid to challenge Amazon's ecosystem.

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Readwise Books combines an ebook store, reading tracker, detailed reading stats, and AI features in a bid to challenge Amazon's ecosystem.

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