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 pandoc or ebook-convert to extract — see references/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.

Step 2 — Parse mode

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read-book — coreyhaines31/makerskills