I wrote about my bookmark management journey and ended up writing a glowing mini-review of Readeck. Well, it’s been almost a couple months and not only am I still using it (more than any of the previous solutions) but also still delighted despite the hedonic adaptation.
So let’s start with what am I missing so it doesn’t sound like a paid advertisement: native PDF support. Aside from that, nothing really. But I’m excited for some of the new features (bookmark notes, yes please!) being worked on and native apps just as a convenient sharing target on Android. I currently use the Firefox plug-in which is a couple extra taps since Firefox doesn’t shows all plugins in a sub-menu.
Now, why am I excitedly writing an update? Today, I came across an article with a list of links to 2025 Hugo award winners and wanted to read the short stories but didn’t have time. I have had this exact scenario play-out many times before, it goes like this: I save that link in my Signal ’notes to self’ and… and that’s it, no further action. I don’t want to read it on my phone or monitor, I’d love to read it on a proper e-ink device (PineNote) but that’s too much hassle, but not with Readeck. I added the short stories quickly and tagged them #hugo2025 #shortstory and created a collection in Readeck with those tags, et voila, EPUB!
The EPUB is nicely formatted with chapters and a Table-Of-Contents and I can also access it from inside KO Reader on my PineNote OPDS library, so I don’t need to sling files around like the stone age. Side Note about KO Reader: I will admit that I don’t do it often enough to remember the exact menu options in KO Reader to launch the OPDS library. KO Reader has a very unique UX and is great for touch operation but the paradigm is so different that my brain forgets the pathways if I don’t use it for a couple days.
Anyway, I think it’s great to revisit the things that bring us value/joy and today I had the spoons to write it up and share with you and hopefully the Readeck team will enjoy this real ‘user story’.