Im looking for something that would be a good ebook reader from the command line? Anyone know of a good one?
i mean…
less?the main thing you’d want out of a good e-reader is font customization. which you can’t do on an application basis in the terminal.
On the top of my head: bookmarks, highlights and notes, vocabulary builder… (I’ve been looking for one too some time ago)
less actually has most of that, weirdly.
Well, – you know – less is more.
Technically correct since the less command was an improvement on the more command.
Heh, that was part of the joke I was aiming for; I liked that it worked on both levels.
I’m (genuinely) curious about why you want a command line ebook reader?
Why not?
I’m all on board with “just to see if it can be done”, but it feels unlikely you will come up with something as easy to use or enjoyable to read on as a graphical solution.
I just got a kobo bw and oh my have I been missing out on e-paper, this thing is damn near perfect…
I have a project with a raspberry pi 2 and small screen that works with the command line very well. I want to stay in there.
The issue with just using other txt options is that bookmarks, dictionaries, and just knowing where I left off would be difficult. Plus I only have a couple of mapped keys.
I use pandoc to convert the epub to a .txt file and read it with emacs or “less”. There are much more efficient ways to do the conversion but I haven’t bothered scripting one.
are you looking for an epub/pdf to txt conveter?
I’ve only used epy in the past it was fine but looks abandoned now. It seems now there is lue looks like it has a lot more features.
Wow - lue looks pretty cool.
That looks interesting! If I want something like txt to speech ill keep this in mind.
What do you even expect from the “command line ebook reader”? Are more/less or even cat good enough?
This is getting out of hand
I bet you’re looking for zathura.
It looks like you already got some good suggestions that don’t require an additional application but I was going to mention, if you use Emacs any, nov.el is a really great ereader; I’ve read much more, since discovering it.
Interesting! This is what I was looking for thanks. Ill give them both a shot.
I was also searching for one a couple of months back. I went through these ones : termpdf.py, tdf ,fancy-cat, meowpdf
Most of these support pdfs only though from what i can recall. I ended up with Sioyek (not a terminal reader)
Do you want to read books with ragged margins? Ew.
