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CLUSTER READER-TERMINAL-BOOK · 9 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2019-02-19

Terminal e-book readers

This cluster consists of terminal-based e-book readers that open formats like EPUB, PDF, and FB2, with some also featuring a graphical interface or RSVP speed reading. The dated history shows a single entry in February 2019, then a gap until December 2025, followed by entries in January, June (three), and July 2026. Traction leaders are tabook, volta-reader, and bookokrat-bin, each with 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

FEB 2019: 1DEC 2025: 1JAN 2026: 1MAR 2026: 1JUN 2026: 3JUL 2026: 1AUG 2026: 1
FEB 2019AUG 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 8 unlabelled

Operator · 9 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 9 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01tabook0★23 daysliveopen sourceA terminal-based e-book reader that supports FB2 and EPUB formats, allowing users to read digital books from the command line.
  2. 02volta-reader0★2 moliveopen sourceDesktop e-book reader that offers RSVP speed reading through both terminal and graphical interfaces.
  3. 03bookokrat-bin0★3 moliveopen sourceTerminal app that reads EPUB and PDF books from local files with a rich text interface.
  4. 04revreader0★4 moliveopen sourceEPUB reader for reading e-books in a terminal or graphical interface.
  5. 05christ-cli0★3 moliveopen sourceA terminal-based Bible reader that reads scripture text on a command line interface.
  6. 06narrative0★4 moliveopen sourceTerminal app that streams ebooks, websites, and other text sources for reading.
  7. 07termpub0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal-based e-book reader that displays EPUB files in a text interface, allowing reading from the command line.
  8. 08verso-reader0★3 moliveopen sourceTerminal e-book reader that opens EPUB files and displays their text in a text-first interface.
  9. 09epy-ereader-mcepl0★10 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal-based e-book reader for reading electronic books from the command line.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.