Liture Quotes

A book highlights manager for the desktop.
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A modern, cross-platform quotes management application built with Tauri and React. Liture helps you organize and manage your favorite quotes from books, with support for importing from popular e-reader platforms.

Note for MacOS users

This app is not signed and Apple sucks doesn't like that, so you will probably see an error when you open it; "Quote is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the bin".

Run this command in the terminal to fix it.

sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Quotes.app

Features

• 📚 Import quotes from popular e-reader platforms:
  • Kindle Clippings
  • Kobo SQLite Database
  • iBooks (macOS only)
• 🔍 Powerful search functionality across quotes, books, and authors
• 📝 Add and manage notes for your books
• ⭐ Star and organize your favorite quotes
• 🏷️ Tag system for better organization
• 📖 Chapter management for structured reading
• 💾 Local database for offline access
• 🎨 Modern, responsive UI

Prerequisites

• Node.js
• Rust
• SQLite
• For macOS/Windows: Tauri CLI
• For Linux: Docker and Docker Compose

Usage

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/eliascotto/liture.git
cd liture

2. Install dependencies:

npm install

Build

MacOS / Windows

npm run tauri build

The build output will be stored in src-tauri/target/release/bundle.

Linux

Use Docker for Linux build:

docker-compose build
docker-compose run --rm tauri-linux-builder

If you encounter issues:

docker-compose up -d tauri-linux-builder
docker ps # grab container id
docker exec -it <container_id> /bin/bash
npm list @tauri-apps/cli-linux-x64-gnu
npm run tauri build

Development

To run the application in development mode:

npm run tauri dev

Testing

Run the test suite:

npm test

For watch mode:

npm run test:watch

For UI testing:

npm run test:ui

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Author

• Elia Scotto - Website