Book Reader
Read and query digital book formats from the command line using BM25 search.
Quick Start
Get book metadata
uv run ~/.claude/skills/book-reader/book.py info ~/Books/mybook.pdf
Show table of contents
uv run ~/.claude/skills/book-reader/book.py toc ~/Books/mybook.epub
Read a specific chapter
uv run ~/.claude/skills/book-reader/book.py read ~/Books/mybook.pdf --chapter 3
Read a specific page
uv run ~/.claude/skills/book-reader/book.py read ~/Books/mybook.pdf --page 42
Search for content (BM25 ranked)
uv run ~/.claude/skills/book-reader/book.py search ~/Books/mybook.pdf "query"
Extract full text
uv run ~/.claude/skills/book-reader/book.py extract ~/Books/mybook.txt
Supported Formats Format Extensions Features PDF .pdf Page numbers, TOC detection, metadata EPUB .epub Chapters from spine, full metadata MOBI .mobi, .azw, .azw3 Basic extraction Text .txt, .text, .md Chapter pattern detection 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 First access: Extracts and caches the book content Subsequent access: Uses cached version (invalidates on file change) Search: BM25 algorithm ranks results by relevance Results: Include chapter/page location for reference See Also
See REFERENCE.md for complete command documentation.