Sneaky-Reader 🤫

上班看书的幻影坦克 | Hide your book under a fancy terminal

👉 BOSS 👉

Features

History saving

Sneaky-reader implements a simple cache mechanism. You can use -l to list all the previous books, and use -b ID to quickly get the book. For example:

$ sneaky_reader -l
[0] CharlesDickens-OliverTwist
[1] 红楼梦
$ sneaky_reader -b0
...

Intuitive usage

Greate thanks to the wonderful projects: rich and textual, sneaky-reader can build a (relatively) complex UI in terminal with few lines:

• You can press f to show/hide the chapters pane
• You can press m, n to forward/backward the current chapter
• You can press / to enable BOSS mode! It will hide all the sneaky things and only leave a fake Python snippet. You can pass -f <PYTHON FILE> to use your own fake code!

Smart spliting

Sneaky-reader supports you to use regluar expression (refer to the re module in python) to split your TXT into chapters. Using the command line option -e to pass your regluar expression.

Remember, always group your chapter name in first in your regular expression! group the title with (.*)

Quick Start

• Via pip: pip install sneaky-reader
• Via sources: clone and enter this repo, then install with pip install -e .. Then you have a shell command sneaky_reader to use!

For the demo books, you could start with commands

#demo in english
sneaky_reader -p="./assets/CharlesDickens-OliverTwist.txt" -e="^CHAPTER (.*)"

# demo in chinese
sneaky_reader -p="./assets/红楼梦.txt" -e="^第(.*)回"

For the first time you import a book, sneaky_reader will require the book path and the spliting expression. After that, the book will be cached and you can read it with command -b ID.