Im looking for something that would be a good ebook reader from the command line? Anyone know of a good one?
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I’m (genuinely) curious about why you want a command line ebook reader?
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 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 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.
This is getting out of hand
are you looking for an epub/pdf to txt conveter?
What do you even expect from the “command line ebook reader”? Are more/less or even cat good enough?
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.
hygg does the job
I don’t get these stackoverflowy comments, very weird
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.
