reading-books

Documents

Read and search digital books (PDF, EPUB, MOBI, TXT). Use when answering questions about a book, finding quotes or passages, navigating to specific pages or chapters, or extracting information from documents.

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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

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