Book reader community.
Never heard of Readwise. Interesting concept.
Not going to be nearly as convenient, but you can use google lens (part of Google assistant I think, or stand alone app) to quickly OCR a page into selectable text which then could be copied into a notes app or something. You'd have manually add a reference.
Anyhow maybe you can figure out a workflow using Google lens for the OCR copy/past part, that isn't too onerous, if no other solutions appear. Let us know! .
This is a great solution! I was searching around a bit more and couldn't find any other apps doing this. I think I'm going to just create a Keep note for each book I read, then I can use Google lens to scan the text and copy what I want into the note and add the page number for reference.
What do you mean by keeping bookmarks? You mean like recording your place in the book so you can continue where you left off? I'm not understanding the benefit of that over a normal paper bookmark?
I think they mean highlights/quotes. That’s what Readwise does, at least.
Years ago my mom cross stitched me a bookmark that reads "A good book is a good friend." That's what I use.
I believe OP is trying to save specific lines/parts of the text, not literally bookmark their place in the book. Similar to how on Kindle you can “highlight” passages and it’ll save a catalogue of all your snippet. OP has previously been typing up the parts they want to “highlight” from a physical book but recently discovered an app that lets you scan the page and just quickly copy the scanned text to save, but isn’t fond of the fee.
With Google lens you can also take a picture and select to copy paste