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 The themes subdirectory contains several custom simple themes for rendering a nice reader view. You can edit or add themes here and they will display in the usage help.
 
+### GUI
+
+A simple yad-based GUI application is included as well.
+
+To install on Debian/*buntu-based systems: ```apt install yad```.
+
+It can be launched from the command line with ```./bookmobile-gui``` or you can create an [executable](https://askubuntu.com/questions/64222/how-can-i-create-launchers-on-my-desktop/66918#66918).
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 ### Alternatives
 
 Currently there are a number of CLI programs that are ports of the Readability project. These may serve your needs better.

bookmobile-gui

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+#!/usr/bin/env fish
+#gui wrapper around bookmobile, using yad
+
+if not command -sq yad
+	echo "Bookmobile-GUI requires yad but it's not installed. Exiting."
+	exit 1
+end
+
+set gui (yad --width=400 --title="" --text="Bookmobile: Download articles for offline reading as simple html, themed html, epub or markdown." \
+--title="Bookmobile" \
+--form --separator='\t' \
+--field="URL" \
+--field="Save as Filename" \
+--field="Export to format":CB \
+"" "" 'html!reader!epub!markdown' \
+--field="Theme (reader mode only)":CB \
+ 'medium!github!gmi!now!pandoc' \
+--field="Output location":DIR \
+--separator="|" )
+
+set gui (string split "|" $gui)
+set url $gui[1]
+set name $gui[2]
+set format $gui[3]
+set theme $gui[4]
+set output $gui[5]
+
+if test -n "$name"
+  ./bookmobile $url -f $format -t $theme -n $name -o $output
+else
+  ./bookmobile $url -f $format -t $theme -o $output
+end