reader 3

A lightweight, self-hosted EPUB reader that lets you read through EPUB books one chapter at a time. This makes it very easy to copy paste the contents of a chapter to an LLM, to read along. Basically - get epub books (e.g. Project Gutenberg has many), open them up in this reader, copy paste text around to your favorite LLM, and read together and along.

This project was 90% vibe coded just to illustrate how one can very easily read books together with LLMs. I'm not going to support it in any way, it's provided here as is for other people's inspiration and I don't intend to improve it. Code is ephemeral now and libraries are over, ask your LLM to change it in whatever way you like.

Usage

The project uses uv. So for example, download Dracula EPUB3 to this directory as dracula.epub, then:

uv run reader3.py dracula.epub

This creates the directory dracula_data, which registers the book to your local library. We can then run the server:

uv run server.py

And visit localhost:8123 to see your current Library. You can easily add more books, or delete them from your library by deleting the folder. It's not supposed to be complicated or complex.

License

MIT