read-book
Installation
SKILL.md
/read-book — Extract structured notes from books and long PDFs
Sibling to watch-video. Same content-consumption pattern: ingest → chunk → extract → optionally capture to second-brain.
Step 1 — Parse input
Accept:
- PDF: file path (Claude reads PDFs natively in chunks via
Read pages:"X-Y") - EPUB / MOBI: file path (needs
pandocorebook-convertto extract — seereferences/sources.md) - Markdown / .txt: file path (read directly)
- Pasted text: just use what was pasted
- URL to public-domain text:
WebFetch(Project Gutenberg, archive.org, etc.)
Detect type from file extension. If ambiguous, ask.