Im looking for something that would be a good ebook reader from the command line? Anyone know of a good one?
This is getting out of hand
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.
I bet you’re looking for zathura.
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 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.
are you looking for an epub/pdf to txt conveter?
Do you want to read books with ragged margins? Ew.
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.
What do you even expect from the “command line ebook reader”? Are more/less or even cat good enough?
