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Founder of Readwise here -- just posted this article from ~10 months ago on a whim. Happy to answer any qs or chat about how the decision to start bootstrapping has gone since then (well!)

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How are guys exporting highlights from kindle? A couple of months ago, I was looking to implement a kindle to Evernote exporter. I couldn't find any official API with the capability, so I ended up writing a scrapper that did the work. See: https://github.com/nishanthvijayan/kindle-highlights-to-goog...

We actually maintain an open source tool called Bookcision which is for easily exporting your Kindle highlights which follows roughly the same approach we take (but is non-automatic, unlike our product):

https://readwise.io/bookcision https://github.com/tristanh/bookcision

Readers should have access to their own reading data! :)

Hi. I used to run a fanfiction site (which I sold about 2 years ago) and one of the things I found quite difficult was monetizing in this field. (I did integrate ebook exporters, readers and other rings and bells into the app after quite a bit of effort, getting very little in return.) Is your experience similar to mine? How did you decide on the right pricing model?

Looks like a great product, I look forward to trying it out this month. Do you have plans to support notes from Google Play Books?

How's the bootstrapping going?

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