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Kindle highlights in your inbox, every morning

You highlighted that sentence because it hit you. Then you turned the page and never saw it again. The cheapest fix in all of reading-tech: a daily email of five of your own highlights, drawn from everything you've ever marked.

Why email, of all things

Because you already open it. Every read-it-later queue and review app dies the same death — one more app you have to remember to open. Email arrives inside a habit you already have. Five quotes, ninety seconds with coffee, done. The ritual survives because it costs nothing.

It also compounds pleasantly: a highlight from three years ago reads differently now. You've changed; the sentence hasn't. That gap is where the "oh — that's why I marked this" moments live.

What a good daily digest does

• Draws from everything — all books, weighted so recent obsessions don't drown out old favorites, and no single book dominates a day.
• Never repeats itself soon — each highlight rests before returning, so the email stays fresh even with a small library.
• Shows the source — book, author, location — because half the pleasure is remembering where you were.
• Doesn't track you — no pixels, no click-bait links, nothing that fires when a mail scanner touches it.

Setting it up with Rereader

Rereader sends the digest from your own Mac through your own email account — there's no cloud service reading your highlights in the middle:

From then on it's automatic: five highlights, every morning, from books you chose to read and sentences you chose to keep. The best newsletter you'll ever subscribe to, because you wrote the highlights yourself.