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Email articles to your podcast

Each account can opt into a unique forwarding address. Send articles or text to it from anywhere — your inbox, a newsletter, your phone — and they land as episodes in your feed.

1. 1

   Enable email episodes in Settings

   Open Settings and scroll to the Email to Podcast section. Click Enable Email Episodes — we generate a unique forwarding address tied to your account and show it in the same panel.

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   Email to Podcast

   Create podcast episodes by forwarding content via email.

   Enable email episodes to get a unique email address for creating episodes by forwarding content.

   Enable Email Episodes

   Already enabled? You'll see your address in the same panel instead of the button — skip ahead to step 2.

2. 2

   Save your forwarding address as a contact

   Settings shows your address — it looks like readtome+xxxxx@…. Copy it and save it in your contacts as PodRead so it autocompletes when you forward.

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   Send content to this address to create podcast episodes:

   [email protected]
3. 3

   Forward an article (or compose new with text)

   Newsletter forwards work well — hit Forward and address it to PodRead. You can also compose a new email and paste article text into the body.

   PodRead

   To: PodRead

   Subject: Fwd: This week's reading

   Send
4. 4

   Episode appears in your feed

   Once PodRead receives the email, audio is ready in your feed in a few minutes. Whether it shows up in your podcast app right away or ten minutes later depends on how often your app checks for new episodes — in many apps you can pull-to-refresh if you want it sooner.

   PodRead

   • This week's reading

     8:14

Email episodes share the same character limit as URL and paste episodes — long content can be split. See Splitting Long Articles.