# Douban Book Notes

Generate a source-backed, shareable Chinese Markdown reading note from a Douban book URL.

- Repository: https://github.com/digoal/blog (8605 stars)
- Category: Writing
- License: GPL-2.0
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add digoal/blog --skill douban-book-notes -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add digoal/blog --skill douban-book-notes -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add digoal/blog --skill douban-book-notes -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add digoal/blog --skill douban-book-notes -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Generate a source-backed, shareable Chinese Markdown reading note from a Douban book URL. Use when the user provides a Douban book link and asks for 读书笔记, book notes, book summary, reading reflection, 图文并茂笔记, or a Markdown article that combines book metadata, high-quality external research, the author's argument, evidence, logic, assumptions, insights, transferability, and personal reflection saved under the current project's markdown directory.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Douban Book Notes

## Goal

Create a rigorous, shareable Chinese reading note from one book's Douban URL. Treat the note as something the user can review personally, publish as an article, or explain aloud to others.

## Workflow

1. Parse the Douban URL and identify the exact book: title, author, translator if any, publisher, publication year, ISBN, original title, and edition caveats.
2. Search the web for high-quality materials about the book, author, historical context, interviews, reviews, lecture notes, academic or professional commentary, and official publisher information. Browse current sources; do not rely only on memory.
3. Keep only reliable materials. Prefer primary or near-primary sources: publisher pages, author interviews, official talks, academic reviews, serious media reviews, reputable book reviews, and high-signal long-form essays. Avoid low-effort summaries, unsourced listicles, scraped review farms, and anonymous content unless used only as weak sentiment context.
4. Read the book's public metadata and the selected materials. If the full book text is unavailable, state that limitation and avoid pretending to have read non-public chapters verbatim.
5. Load `references/note_framework.md` for the note structure, quality bar, and visual ideas.
6. Synthesize the final Markdown in Chinese unless the user explicitly asks for another language. Combine sourced facts, source-grounded interpretation, and your own clearly labeled thinking.
7. Save the Markdown under the current project's `markdown/` directory. Create the directory if missing. Use a filename like `YYYYMMDD-book-notes-<book-title-slug>.md`.

## Research Rules

The rest: https://github.com/digoal/blog/blob/HEAD/skills/douban-book-notes/SKILL.md