Awesome Reader

Make Obsidian a proper Reader.

Features

• 💾 Remember reading progress and sync to all devices. You can now continue reading where you left off across all devices.
• ✒ Create book note from TOC(table of contents). With well organized heading formats.
• ♳ Support multiple ebook formats. Currently, epub and pdf are supported.

How to use

You may want to toggle on Detect all file extensions first in options -> Files & Links.

1. Drop some ebooks(e.g. epub files) to your vault. Click it and read.
2. To create book note, click Open/create book note from file menu. Note will be in the same folder alongside the book.
3. Reading progress is automatically remembered in plugin's folder. And will be sync to all devices if you got "Obsidian Sync" or similar services.

Known issues

• Reading progress of pdf format is not fully implemented now

Development

Development requires Node.js 24 or newer. Install dependencies, run all checks, build the production bundle, and optionally copy it directly into a local vault:

npm install
npm run check
npm run build
npm run deploy -- "/path/to/vault"

The deploy command copies main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css into .obsidian/plugins/awesome-reader/. After deployment, enable Awesome Reader in Obsidian. Reload the plugin after source changes; restart Obsidian after changing manifest.json.

Release

Use npm's version command to update package.json, manifest.json, and versions.json, then push the generated commit and tag (tags intentionally have no v prefix):

npm version patch
git push origin master --follow-tags

Pushing the tag starts the release workflow. It checks the version, builds the plugin, attaches main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css, and creates a draft GitHub release for review and publication.

Attribution

Special thanks to caronchen's marvelous Obsidian ePub Reader Plugin, some code is from this great work.