Burgr – Books in Your Terminal

• epy

  15 899 3.4 Python

  CLI Ebook (epub2, epub3, fb2, mobi) Reader

Sure, i use epy[1] and every month i d/l my books from amazon that i have bought, dedrm[2] through calibre and save the epubs to a folder. Its not a particularly arduous task.

When i want to read i have an alias setup along the lines of:

epy "$(fzf)"

its a nice interface ;-)

Now i don't often read full books in the terminal, BUT i do like being able to reference bits that i remember at a VERY quick speed. I recently was talking to somoene about biases we bring to statistics and could remember reading a great anecdote about it, using rga[3] i was able to bring up the passage VERY quickly in the terminal

Like most great cli tools, its about the workflow

[1] https://github.com/wustho/epy

• epr

  5 1,099 0.0 Python

  CLI Epub Reader

I occasionally use epr to read epubs in a terminal. Works pretty well.

https://github.com/wustho/epr

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• bk

  3 234 3.0 Rust

  Terminal Epub reader

• web

  331 224 9.6 PHP

  The source code for the Standard Ebooks website. (by standardebooks)

  

Especially if it could also download books from Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/

• DeDRM_tools

  172 6,179 6.3 Python

  DeDRM tools for ebooks (by noDRM)

• ripgrep-all

  43 6,177 8.0 Rust

  rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc.

• himalaya

  43 2,842 9.3 Rust

  CLI to manage emails

We live in a time of a Renaissance of terminal tools. I recently discovered Himalaya[1], a command line tool for email, and I really like it. I'm also interested in exploring a new tool for calendar called qcal[2]. I'm kicking around writing a chat client for GroupMe for the terminal right now. That way I could finally ditch pidgin.

Like the OP, I spend all day in tmux these days, which is in many ways the most superior UI[3]. As a bonus, CLI tools are often cross-platform and very easy to write.

1: https://github.com/soywod/himalaya

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• mblaze

  10 416 4.9 C

  Unix utilities to deal with Maildir

If you like Himalaya, you'll probably like mblaze as well (https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze)

I also find fzf to be very good for building simple UIs. In fact I saw ways to do 80% of burgr with a few lines of fzf; composable tools really are the bee's knees

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