uniread is Spritz like CLI fast reading software.
The application uses Node.js, an open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript run-time environment that executes JavaScript code outside of a browser. Node.js lets developers use JavaScript to write command line tools and for server-side scripting.
uniread is released under an open source license.
Key Features
- Support for the following formats:
- EPUB.
- TEXT.
- PDF (using Mozilla pdf.js library).
- Supports displaying EPUB chapters.
- Can be controlled using the keyboard.
- Displays statistics, like the current reading speed, reading progress (read number of words / total), as well as the estimated time left to finish reading the book.
- Double time is allocated for a comma and a full stop.
Website: github.com/nemanjan00/uniread
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Developer: Nemanja Nedeljković
License: MIT License
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