baca is billed as epy’s lovely sister who lets you indulge in your favorite e-books in the comfort of your terminal.
This TUI ebook reader offers a sleek and contemporary appearance.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Formats supported: Epub, Epub3, Mobi & Azw.
- Remembers last reading position.
- Show images as ANSI image and you can click it for more detail.
- Scroll animations.
- Clean and modern appearance.
- Text justification.
- Dark and light color scheme.
- Regex search.
- Hyperlinks.
Website: github.com/wustho/baca
Support:
Developer: Benawi Adha
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
baca is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

Related Software
| CLI ebook readers | Event |
|---|---|
| epr | Terminal/CLI Epub reader |
| epy | Fork of epr with added features |
| baca | epy's sister with a sleek and contemporary appearance |
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