I just tried it in a Python UV Environment and it works more or less alright. I am using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
Only drawback, in my view, is the requirement of "espeak, antiword" packages outside the uv environment. I would prefer that all tools be installable inside the uv environment to reduce possible corruption or errors.
I do seem to have one issue. When I tried to use the "t" keyboard shortcut, the application refused to continue reading the book, epub in this case, when I pressed "a" to start auto playback. Pressing and depressing "pause" has no effect. Deactivating and reactivating the environment has no effect but it does drop me back to where it left off.
Though the terminal interface is acceptable, may I suggest that a more interactive interface might make it more attractive to people that are also used to a GUI interface. Perhaps creating a terminal GUI option using the Textual Python Terminal package.
It would also be good if when typing "lue", the app will automatically find the book I was last reading without me having to specify it in as an argument every time. A keyboard shortcut to display the reading history would also be useful.
Just a thought :)
nice to hear! yes, there are some dependencies outside python which is not optimal, but at least the default install seem work, which is nice.
i hadn't heard of textual python terminal before but i'm looking at the documentation right now and it seems very useful package. thanks for the recommendation! i'll definitely research this more.