bk is a terminal EPUB reader, written in Rust. Forked from https://github.com/aeosynth/bk. Supports EPUB 2/3 with vim-style navigation, images, incremental search, and bookmarks.

• Cross platform - Linux, macOS and Windows support
• Single binary, instant startup
• EPUB 2/3 support
• Vim bindings
• Incremental search
• Bookmarks
• Image display
• Cross-device sync (via content-hash + configurable save path)

from github:

git clone https://github.com/leochencipher/bk
cd bk
cargo install --path .

Usage: bk [<path>] [-m] [-t] [-s <save_path>] [-w <width>]

read a book

Options:
  --bg              background color (eg 282a36)
  --fg              foreground color (eg f8f8f2)
  -m, --meta        print metadata and exit
  -t, --toc         start with table of contents open
  -s, --save-path   save path for reading progress (default: ~/book/bk)
  -w, --width       characters per line
  --help            display usage information

Running bk without a path will load the most recent EPUB.

bk identifies books by SHA-256 content hash instead of file path, so the same EPUB opened from different directories on different machines is recognized as the same book. Set a shared sync directory for the save file:

bk --save-path ~/Sync/bk/books.ron /path/to/book.epub

Then point Syncthing (or any sync tool) at ~/Sync/bk/ and your reading progress follows you everywhere. The save file is in human-readable RON format, so you can inspect or manually merge it if needed.

Type any function key (eg F1) to see the keybinds.

Check if your terminal supports italics:

echo -e "\e[3mitalic\e[0m"

1: you can use the --meta switch to use bk as a file previewer with eg nnn

https://github.com/wustho/epr