Show HN: Booksearch – fast TUI search for book collections (opens in new tab)

booksearch walks the current directory, builds a local index of every ebook it finds, and gives you instant typeahead search over titles, authors, and filenames.

Pick a book and hit Enter to send it to another device via magic-wormhole without uploading anywhere or signing up for anything.

Written in rust by Claude.

No external dependencies for searching epubs (as it uses the rbook crate).

For other file types (e.g. mobi and pdf) it requires calibre's ebook-meta cli to be installed.

I made this because I wanted to quickly search a folder of epubs, see covers etc.

Before that, I tried:

- Calibre is excellent but makes a copy of every book you add to its library.

- Kavita seems more focused on series than individual books. Plus I had some problems diagnosing problems with the initial library scan.

Of course a tui is not for everyone.