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Three Candles curates your RSS feeds, X bookmarks, YouTube, and podcasts into a calm, edited digest, delivered to your Kindle on your schedule.
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Three Candles
Evening Issue · Mar 24, 2026
22 min · 4 items
Start with the podcast deep-dive on reasoning models; it is the quickest read at 4 min. This issue covers pieces across rss, podcast, twitter.
RSS
Why RAG Is Overfit to Demos
What matters isn't retrieval. It's knowing when not to retrieve.
Podcast
Reasoning at the Edge
A conversation on what small models can actually do.
X Bookmark
@karpathy
Thread on training data quality vs. quantity.
RSS
The SQLite Manifesto
Why the world's most deployed database stays single-file.
Synthesis
Two threads this issue: small-model pragmatism and the cost of over-engineering retrieval.
How it works
Sources
RSS feeds, X bookmarks, YouTube channels, podcasts. Add a URL and we handle the rest.
Editorial
Each piece is re-structured with context, takeaways, and why it matters. A cross-issue synthesis ties themes together.
Kindle
A finished magazine arrives on your e-reader. 15 or 30 minutes, on your schedule.
Every article, thread, and episode is rewritten into a structured entry: what happened, why it matters, and what to take from it. Each issue closes with a synthesis that traces patterns across your sources.
Sources
Any feed that speaks RSS or Atom. Full article text is extracted, not just the headline.
Threads you saved on X arrive stitched back into a single readable post, attribution intact.
Paste a channel. Each new video's captions become a written piece you can read on paper.
Episodes get transcribed and shaped into a digest entry with the key takeaways up front.
Bring over articles you already saved for later. They join the same issue as the rest.
Paste a URL from anywhere. It lands in the next issue.
How it compares
vs. Readwise Reader
Readwise is a great app to read inside. Three Candles removes the app. Your inbox on Kindle is one finished magazine, not a queue.
vs. Pocket, Instapaper
They save articles. We rewrite them: context up front, takeaways at the end, a synthesis at the close of each issue.
vs. Your own RSS reader
A reader shows you 400 unread items. We select a handful, edit them, and ship one issue. The decision fatigue goes away.
vs. Newsletters
Newsletters are someone else's taste. Three Candles is your sources, edited to the same standard.
Questions
Any Kindle with a Send-to-Kindle email address. Paperwhite, Oasis, Scribe, and the basic model all qualify. The app sends an EPUB to that address and Amazon syncs it to your device.
No. You add our sending address to your approved senders in your Amazon account. That is the only credential. If you ever want to stop receiving issues, remove it.
Yes. Paste any RSS or Atom URL during setup. We pull full article text, not just the title, and fold new pieces into the next issue.
Readwise gives you a better app to read in. Three Candles removes the app. You do not open a queue; you pick up your Kindle and the issue is already there, edited and closed.
Episodes and videos get transcribed, then rewritten as print entries with context and takeaways. You read them instead of listening. Good for long drives replaced by long evenings.
Daily, weekly, or as a one-off. Daily issues are shorter and arrive at the hour you pick. Weekly issues are longer and better edited; they land once per week.
Yes. A single-issue purchase is €0.98. Connect three sources, we generate the digest from your actual inputs, and it hits your Kindle the same day.
Each issue goes through a director-and-editors pipeline: planning, per-item rewrites, a review pass against quality rules, and a synthesis across items. If a piece does not earn the pages, it gets cut, not padded.
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