A small weekly letter from your Kindle
Your past self had a point.
Five thoughts you once highlighted. Rediscovered every week.
You already did the reading. Echo helps you remember what mattered.
Sunday, 25 October
Five thoughts you once highlighted.
Your past self had a point.
I.
Attention is the only gift you can give that cannot be faked for long.
The Quiet Hours · Mara Ellison
Location 214
Your note
Write this on the whiteboard.
II.
Some maps are made to find a place. The best ones are made so you can find your way back.
The Cartographer's Daughter · Elena Marsh
Location 1,105
III.
The work you are proud of in ten years will mostly be the work that felt slow and unremarkable while you did it.
Slow Rivers: Notes on Patience · Jonah Albright
Location 688
Your note
Re-read on bad weeks.
Two more thoughts below…
How it works
Three steps, then it simply arrives.
I.
Bring in your Kindle highlights.
Install the Echo extension for Chrome and press Sync. It reads your Kindle notebook right in your browser, with the Amazon login you already have, and sends Echo only your highlights and notes.
II.
Echo brings back five older thoughts.
Each issue picks highlights old enough to have slipped your mind, prefers different books, and never repeats one you have already received.
III.
Receive your review by email.
On Sunday morning, or whenever you choose, in your own time zone. Preview any issue first, change the rhythm, or pause with one click.
“The books are finished. The thoughts don't have to be.”
Questions
Honest answers.
How do my highlights get into Echo?
Amazon has no public API for Kindle highlights, so there is no “Connect Amazon” button. Instead, the Echo extension for Chrome opens your Kindle notebook page — the one at read.amazon.com that already lists your highlights — and reads it in your browser, at a calm pace. Then it sends the highlights and your notes to your Echo account. Sync again whenever you like; Echo only adds what's new.
Does Echo ever see my Amazon password?
No. The extension uses the Amazon session that's already in your browser and never reads, stores or sends your password or cookies. You can see exactly what it sends in the privacy policy.
What does Echo store, and where?
Your email address, the highlights and notes you sync with their book titles and locations, your settings, and which highlights went into which issue. Everything is stored in the EU. Delete your account and it's all gone; you can also download all of it as a file.
Who else reads my highlights?
Nobody. Each issue is delivered by our email provider, which handles the message to send it to you. No ads, no analytics, no AI services, no selling of data.
What are the limits?
The extension runs in Chrome (and Chromium browsers like Edge, Brave and Arc). Kindle doesn't share when you made a highlight, so Echo uses the date it first saw it. Some publishers cap how much text the notebook shows, and notes without a highlight are skipped.
What does it cost?
Nothing during the beta.