This is neat, but why would you want to read books in a monospaced font? Proportional and serif fonts exist for a reason: they make long paragraphs of text more pleasant to read. Words can be better identified by their shape, which makes them easier to distinguish at a glance.<p>I suppose you could have a separate terminal configuration with a different font for this app, but standalone reader apps or, better yet, e-ink devices, do a much better job of making text easier to read for long periods of time.
I’ve never read books from a computer, it’s always a phone, a tablet, or an eink reader. Somehow reading a long-form text without being able to hold the medium in my hand feels wrong.<p>Am I missing a convenient experience? I’d like to hear stories from computer-using readers.
We live in a time of a Renaissance of terminal tools. I recently discovered Himalaya[1], a command line tool for email, and I really like it. I'm also interested in exploring a new tool for calendar called qcal[2]. I'm kicking around writing a chat client for GroupMe for the terminal right now. That way I could finally ditch pidgin.<p>Like the OP, I spend all day in tmux these days, which is in many ways the most superior UI[3]. As a bonus, CLI tools are often cross-platform and very easy to write.<p>1: <a href="https://github.com/soywod/himalaya">https://github.com/soywod/himalaya</a><p>2: <a href="https://shttps://sr.ht/~psic4t/qcal/r.ht/~psic4t/qcal/" rel="nofollow">https://shttps://sr.ht/~psic4t/qcal/r.ht/~psic4t/qcal/</a><p>3: <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/gui-programmer.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/gui-programmer....</a>
I wrote something similar in sophomore year of college. It didn't work quite as well as this does because I was a noob and wrote it in C/ncurses. Got me a job because it impressed the interviewer. Read all of Kevin mitnick's Ghost in the Wires on it<p><a href="https://github.com/shortrounddev/books">https://github.com/shortrounddev/books</a>
Thats fantastic, but where do I get the program? I would like to try it out but as far as I can tell there isn't a link to your github anywhere on your blog unless I overlooked it, and I don't see it in Ubuntu's repository either.
To put it bluntly, where the source code at? I realize OP is the only user and probably doesn't want to deal with feadback, etc, but I'd love to tinker with/use this.
I had an ex-coworker who would read books in their terminal. they had no idea how to complete their job.<p>The optics to management: “they are always at their desk in their terminal, they’re getting work done!”<p>They ended up “departing” shortly after a new person joined and called it out in a meeting.
Very neat project, would love to install it and give it a try.<p>I was reading your post on software that will run 20 years from now. What about perl?<p>My perl scripts, and maybe awk, too, are the only ones running after 25 years!
I love it! The double spaced text looks very easy on the eye and it will work especially well on a phone / tablet with a shell. Is burgr published and can I install it? Ship it with some free books too!