Reading Books

Book Reader

Read and query digital book formats from the command line using BM25 search.

Quick Start

# Get book metadata
uv run ~/.claude/skills/reading-books/book.py info ~/Books/mybook.pdf

# Show table of contents
uv run ~/.claude/skills/reading-books/book.py toc ~/Books/mybook.epub

# Read a specific chapter
uv run ~/.claude/skills/reading-books/book.py read ~/Books/mybook.pdf --chapter 3

# Read a specific page
uv run ~/.claude/skills/reading-books/book.py read ~/Books/mybook.pdf --page 42

# Search for content (BM25 ranked)
uv run ~/.claude/skills/reading-books/book.py search ~/Books/mybook.pdf "query"

# Extract full text
uv run ~/.claude/skills/reading-books/book.py extract ~/Books/mybook.txt

Supported Formats

When to Use

• User provides a book file and asks questions about its content
• Need to find specific quotes, passages, or information
• Navigating to specific pages or chapters in a document
• Researching topics across digital books
• Extracting text for further processing

How It Works

1. First access: Extracts and caches the book content
2. Subsequent access: Uses cached version (invalidates on file change)
3. Search: BM25 algorithm ranks results by relevance
4. Results: Include chapter/page location for reference

See Also

See REFERENCE.md for complete command documentation.