Turn Your Newsletters Into a Podcast You'll Actually Finish
4 min read
Newsletters are some of the best writing on the internet right now: sharp, personal, and free. The problem is where they live: your inbox, sandwiched between receipts and work threads, where "read later" almost always means "never."
What if your favorite newsletters played like a podcast instead?
The inbox is the wrong place to read
Email is built for triage, not for deep reading. Every time you open a long newsletter, something more urgent pulls you away. So the good stuff gets archived unread, and you feel a low hum of guilt about it.
Audio changes the context. A newsletter you'd never sit and read becomes easy to enjoy while you're walking the dog or driving home.
How to convert newsletters to audio
The goal is to move the reading out of your inbox and into your ears:
- Highlight the newsletter text in your browser (open it on the web version if needed).
- Send it to a listening app to convert it into audio.
- Queue up a few and play them back-to-back like episodes.
Do this with two or three newsletters and you suddenly have a personal show, curated entirely by you, with no ads and no algorithm.
Make it effortless with Liso
Liso is built exactly for this. Highlight any newsletter on the web, choose "Listen with Liso," and it's converted into natural audio in your library. Stack up a week's worth and listen on your commute.
Pick a voice you like, speed it up if you read fast, and keep an offline copy for the subway. It's the easiest way to make sure the newsletters you love don't die unread in your inbox. Try it free.