Product Update
ReadWith Is Now Available for Everyone
Hi, Pascal here, the maker of ReadWith.
I’m happy to announce that ReadWith is now available for everyone.
ReadWith is for the person who keeps saying, “we should read this together.”
That might be a team lead, a coach, a teacher, a pastor, an author, a community organizer, a friend who gathers people, or someone who simply knows that a book can do more when it is read in good company.
Guests read free. Organizers can start with a 7-day trial. No credit card needed to start.
What ReadWith helps you do
ReadWith gives leaders a practical way to organize a small reading group:
- Invite people around a book without needing a big program, curriculum, or community platform.
- Set reading goals so the group has a rhythm and a shared sense of progress.
- Share notes without spoilers by revealing the group’s notes only up to the point where each person has read and responded.
- Give quieter readers a way in before the live discussion, so the group hears from more than the fastest talkers.
- Keep the book at the center instead of scattering the conversation across chats, documents, and calendar invites.
Here’s how ReadWith looks:
A different take: reading notes meant to be shared
Most reading tools are built for the individual: save highlights, collect notes, build a private archive.
Most group tools are built for conversation: chat, meetings, comments, threads.
ReadWith, on the other hand, is built for shared reading.
When someone reacts to a passage by sharing a note in ReadWith, they get rewarded by seeing what other readers in their group have said up to that same place in the book. That means the group can learn from each other without spoiling what comes later. You get the feel of a live reading group, where everyone shares (in awe) over a specific passage, but asynchronously.
For leaders, ReadWith helps in a few ways, because a reading group often fails for ordinary reasons. People fall behind. The strongest voices dominate. The group loses track of where everyone is. Good intentions turn into one more thing to manage.
ReadWith gives the leader enough structure to help the group keep going, while leaving the reading itself human, personal, and surprising.
Who should try it
If you lead people and there is a book you want to explore with them, ReadWith is for you.
It can start with two people. It can be a short book. It can be one chapter a week. It can be a group at work, a community group, a group of friends, or a set of readers gathered around an author.
You do not need to become a course creator. You do not need to run a full learning platform. You just need a book, a few people, and a reason to read it together.
It’s for those who feel the craving to take the lead.
A summary for media use
If you cover books, workplace learning, communities, creator tools, or the future of reading, the short version is this:
ReadWith is a small-group reading platform that helps leaders organize reading groups and lets members share notes without spoiling later parts of the book.
It is a product for a very old behavior: people changing together because they read together.
Start a group
ReadWith is open now.
If you are ready to organize a group, you can start here:
Guests read free. 7-day Organizer trial. No credit card to start. Already invited? Sign in.
I’ll keep sharing updates through ReadWith Bulletins as the product develops from here.
– Pascal
