How to get your book highlights emailed on a schedule

Why the usual way fails

Highlights end up scattered: one export from the Kindle, a few saved articles, some quotes typed into a notes app. Reviewing them means hunting across all those places, so most people simply never do it. Building your own email routine sounds easy until you try it, because sending reliable scheduled mail from a home server or a script often lands in spam. The paid services that solve this usually charge every year, which is a lot for something you want to keep for a decade. And a long export full of messy page numbers and broken paragraphs is not something anyone wants to read over coffee.

How Reado helps

Reado collects your highlights in one place and sends them back to you as a small email digest on the schedule you pick. You import a Kindle My Clippings file, a CSV export or saved articles, and it splits long passages into shorter quotes and adds book covers. Then you choose the time of day and how many days a week the email arrives, and each digest carries a few quotes that also show up in a daily review room on the web. You can try it with five highlights for free, and the paid option is a single payment rather than a yearly plan.

Step by step

1. Start the free preview and add up to five highlights to see how the emails look.
2. Import your Kindle My Clippings file, a CSV export or saved web articles.
3. Let Reado clean up the import, split long passages and match book covers.
4. Pick a delivery time, such as early morning, and the days of the week you want emails.
5. Choose which inbox the digest goes to, then read the few quotes that arrive each time.
6. Open the daily review room on days you want to go back over the same quotes again.

Tips

• Send the digest to the inbox you read first thing, not a work account full of alerts. A quote is easy to skip when it sits between ten meeting invites.
• Start with fewer emails a week than you think you want. A weekday routine you actually open beats a daily one you start archiving unread.
• Bring everything in at once so you are not reviewing half your library. Reado removes duplicates when you import from several sources.
• If you plan to self-host the open source version, budget time for the email side. You set up your own mail relay and scheduled jobs, and home mail servers are often flagged as spam.

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