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Re:Show HN: An Open-Source E-Book Reader for Conversational ... by geor9e on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @11:41AM (#44813517)
If this looks hard to install (you need to host a server, supabase, docker, lots of python dependancies) - instead, you could just install this to Edge https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/epubreader... to use it's built in Copilot sidebar to chat about the book. It would work identical to this project AFAICT, except the back end would be Microsoft.
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Re:Show HN: An Open-Source E-Book Reader for Conversational ... by takigon on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @12:06PM (#44813860)
Thank you for sharing the information/comments. The extensions you have presented are indeed great, but they seem to lack features such as full text search, page count progress tracking, text highlighting, notes, etc. Also, regarding RAG, I find it a bit cumbersome as I have to import the epub every time I open the book. I am not familiar with this tool, so sorry if I am wrong.
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