diff --git a/tui/README.md b/tui/README.md
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+# diora-tui
+
+EPUB-Reader im Terminal — die erste Stufe einer TUI-Version von diora.
+
+Zeigt ein Buch als **eine durchgehende Ansicht** über alle Kapitel hinweg (wie diora's
+Web-Reader), nicht Kapitel für Kapitel. Lesefortschritt wird als dieselbe
+`"blockIndex:innerFraction"`-Positionsangabe geführt wie der Web-Reader (`books/models.py`,
+`EBookProgress`) — `blockIndex` zählt dabei exakt wie `static/js/app.js`s
+`EPUB_BLOCK_SELECTOR` (`p, h1-h6, li, blockquote, dt, dd, figcaption` + textbasierte
+`div`s ohne Element-Kinder), fortlaufend über das ganze Buch. Dadurch ist die Position
+zwischen TUI und Web-Reader direkt vergleichbar, und `diora-tui sync` kann Fortschritt in
+beide Richtungen synchronisieren (siehe unten).
+
+Fortschritt wird — genau wie im Web-Reader (`save_progress`) — nur vorwärts überschrieben
+("furthest wins"), lokal in `progress.json` (`~/.local/share/diora-tui/`, via
+`platformdirs`), damit ein älterer/gestaffelter Lauf nie eine bereits weiter gelesene
+Position zurücksetzt.
+
+## Setup
+
+```bash
+cd tui
+pip install -e .
+```
+
+## Nutzung
+
+```bash
+diora-tui --library ~/Books   # Standard: ~/Books
+```
+
+Tastenkürzel:
+
+- `↑`/`k`, `↓`/`j` — zeilenweise scrollen
+- `n` — nächstes Kapitel, `p` — vorheriges Kapitel
+- `f` — Fußnote in der Nähe der aktuellen Position anzeigen (Peek-Overlay, `Escape`/`f`/`q`
+  zum Schließen); Erkennung folgt derselben Heuristik wie `app.js`s
+  `_looksLikeFootnoteLink` (Link in/um `<sup>`, Klassenname mit note/footnote/fn, oder
+  `epub:type="noteref"`)
+- `Enter` — markiertes Buch aus der Bibliothek öffnen
+- `r` (in der Bibliothek) — gelesene Bücher ein-/ausblenden (siehe unten)
+- `Escape` / `q` — zurück zur Bibliothek (im Reader) bzw. beenden (in der Bibliothek)
+
+Der Fließtext ist auf 120 Zeichen Breite begrenzt und horizontal zentriert (lesbarer als
+volle Terminalbreite bei breiten Fenstern).
+
+Unten rechts zeigt eine Statusleiste Akkustand (falls vorhanden, via `psutil`) und Uhrzeit,
+sekündlich aktualisiert, auf Bibliotheks- und Reader-Ansicht.
+
+Die Bibliotheksansicht ist nach zuletzt geöffnetem Buch sortiert (neueste zuerst; anhand
+des Zeitstempels der zuletzt gespeicherten Position), und blendet gelesene Bücher
+standardmäßig aus (`EBook.is_read` aus dem Sync-Snapshot, lokal in `library.json`
+gespiegelt) — `r` zeigt sie wieder an, für diese Sitzung.
+
+## Bücher + Fortschritt vom Server holen (`diora-tui sync`)
+
+Sobald einmal Zugangsdaten gespeichert sind (`~/.config/diora-tui/config.json`, siehe
+unten), synct `diora-tui` **automatisch** — einmal leise im Hintergrund beim Start (neue
+Bücher + Fortschritt werden nachgeladen, die Bibliotheksliste aktualisiert sich von
+selbst) und einmal beim Beenden über `q` (kurzer Moment Verzögerung, bevor die App
+tatsächlich schließt). Der explizite Befehl ist für's Ersteinrichten und für
+Nicht-interaktive Nutzung (Cron o.ä.):
+
+```bash
+diora-tui sync                              # nutzt gespeicherte Zugangsdaten, sonst interaktive Abfrage
+diora-tui sync --server https://diora.creamfresh.xyz --save   # einmalig einrichten + speichern
+```
+
+Lädt alle EPUBs des Accounts über `GET /api/sync/` + `GET /books/<id>/data/` herunter,
+entschlüsselt sie lokal (AES-256-GCM, kompatibel zu `static/js/app.js`) und legt sie als
+normale `.epub`-Dateien in `--library` ab (Dateiname `<id> - <Titel>.epub`) — von da an
+funktionieren sie wie jedes andere lokale Buch. Bereits heruntergeladene Bücher werden
+beim nächsten Lauf übersprungen (kein erneuter Download). Der Fortschritt aus dem Snapshot
+wird dabei ebenfalls übernommen (nur vorwärts, wie lokal auch).
+
+Während ein so heruntergeladenes Buch geöffnet ist (erkennbar am `<id> - `-Dateinamens-
+Präfix), schickt der Reader Fortschritts-Updates zusätzlich zurück an den Server
+(`POST /books/<id>/progress/`, `force: false` — überschreibt also nie eine weiter
+gelesene Position, egal ob die vom Web-Reader oder einem anderen Gerät stammt). Rein
+lokale Bücher (ohne dieses Präfix) bleiben unangetastet, kein Netzwerkzugriff.
+
+Dafür nötig, beim ersten Lauf abgefragt (danach optional lokal gespeichert unter
+`~/.config/diora-tui/config.json`, `chmod 600`):
+
+- **Server-URL** — z.B. `https://diora.creamfresh.xyz`.
+- **API-Token** — diora → Einstellungen (`/accounts/settings/`) → "Personal Access Token".
+- **Verschlüsselungs-Key** — der AES-256-Schlüssel, mit dem deine Bücher clientseitig
+  verschlüsselt wurden. Der `sync`-Prompt bietet zwei Wege:
+  1. **Aus Benutzername + Passwort ableiten** (Standard) — reproduziert exakt, was diora's
+     "Unlock with password"-Formular im Browser tut (PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256, 200.000
+     Iterationen, Salt `"diora:" + username`; siehe `static/js/app.js:deriveAndStoreKey`).
+     Funktioniert nur, wenn der Account diesen Weg im Browser mindestens einmal benutzt
+     hat — sonst wurde der Key ursprünglich zufällig im Browser erzeugt, und diese
+     Ableitung trifft ihn nicht. `sync` meldet einen falschen Key als
+     Entschlüsselungsfehler (harmlos, kein Datenverlust), nie als falsches Ergebnis.
+  2. **Base64-Key direkt einfügen** — für den Fall, dass Weg 1 nicht passt. Der
+     Export-Button dafür ist im Browser-UI aktuell nicht verdrahtet (`exportEncKey()` in
+     `app.js` existiert, hat aber keinen sichtbaren Button); bis das nachgezogen ist, in
+     der Browser-Devtools-Konsole auf der diora-Seite (nicht `/accounts/settings/` — die
+     lädt `app.js` nicht) ausführen: `await exportEncKey()` — kopiert den Key ins
+     Clipboard, von dort ins `sync`-Prompt einfügen. Schlägt das mit einem
+     `NotAllowedError`/`InvalidAccessError` fehl, stattdessen direkt aus `localStorage`
+     lesen: `localStorage.getItem('diora_enc_key_' + window.USER_ID)`.
+
+Der Key/Token wird genauso vertrauensvoll behandelt wie im Web-Client (dort liegt der
+Schlüssel unverschlüsselt in `localStorage`): lokal als Klartext in einer 0600-Datei.
+
+## Performance bei großen Büchern
+
+Sehr große Bücher (mehrstellige Tausend Absätze — z.B. Sammelbände) können beim
+*ersten* Öffnen mehrere Sekunden bis niedrige zweistellige Sekunden brauchen (Parsing +
+Zeilenumbruch-Berechnung für die durchgehende Ansicht). Ein zweites Öffnen desselben
+Buchs bei gleicher Terminalbreite ist dank Cache (`~/.cache/diora-tui/layout_cache/`)
+deutlich schneller. Das Rendering selbst skaliert nicht mit der Buchgröße — nur die
+tatsächlich sichtbaren Zeilen werden gezeichnet (Textual Line API), nicht das ganze Buch
+auf einmal.
+
+## Grenzen der aktuellen Version
+
+- Nur EPUB, kein PDF — `sync` lädt PDFs im Account gar nicht erst herunter (übersprungen,
+  wird gemeldet), da der Reader sie ohnehin nicht darstellen kann.
+- Text wird als Fließtext ohne Bild-/Layout-Rendering dargestellt.
+- `innerFraction` (die Position *innerhalb* eines Blocks) ist eine Terminal-Näherung
+  (zeilenbasiert statt pixelbasiert wie im Browser) — für die Fortschritts-Sortierung
+  zählt primär `blockIndex`, der exakt mit dem Web-Reader übereinstimmt; `innerFraction`
+  ist nur ein Tiebreaker innerhalb desselben Blocks.
diff --git a/tui/diora_tui/__init__.py b/tui/diora_tui/__init__.py
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+"""diora-tui: lokaler EPUB-Reader, Vorstufe eines diora-TUI-Clients."""
diff --git a/tui/diora_tui/__main__.py b/tui/diora_tui/__main__.py
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+from diora_tui.app import main
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/tui/diora_tui/api.py b/tui/diora_tui/api.py
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+"""HTTP client for diora's sync API (see the repo's CLAUDE.md, "Sync API for
+local clients"). Status: that API is provisional — expect endpoint/field
+changes as the server-side implementation settles.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import requests
+
+
+class ApiError(Exception):
+    pass
+
+
+def _headers(token: str) -> dict[str, str]:
+    return {"Authorization": f"Bearer {token}"}
+
+
+def fetch_sync_snapshot(server_url: str, token: str) -> dict:
+    resp = requests.get(f"{server_url}/api/sync/", headers=_headers(token), timeout=30)
+    if resp.status_code == 401:
+        raise ApiError("Authentifizierung fehlgeschlagen — Token falsch oder abgelaufen?")
+    resp.raise_for_status()
+    return resp.json()
+
+
+def fetch_book_data(server_url: str, token: str, book_id: int) -> dict:
+    resp = requests.get(f"{server_url}/books/{book_id}/data/", headers=_headers(token), timeout=120)
+    if resp.status_code == 401:
+        raise ApiError("Authentifizierung fehlgeschlagen — Token falsch oder abgelaufen?")
+    if resp.status_code == 404:
+        raise ApiError(f"Buch {book_id} nicht gefunden (falscher Owner oder gelöscht?)")
+    resp.raise_for_status()
+    return resp.json()
+
+
+def post_progress(
+    server_url: str, token: str, book_id: int, *, scroll_fraction: float, position_anchor: str, force: bool = False
+) -> None:
+    body = {"scroll_fraction": scroll_fraction, "position_anchor": position_anchor, "force": force}
+    resp = requests.post(
+        f"{server_url}/books/{book_id}/progress/", headers=_headers(token), json=body, timeout=30
+    )
+    if resp.status_code == 401:
+        raise ApiError("Authentifizierung fehlgeschlagen — Token falsch oder abgelaufen?")
+    if resp.status_code == 404:
+        raise ApiError(f"Buch {book_id} nicht gefunden (falscher Owner oder gelöscht?)")
+    resp.raise_for_status()
diff --git a/tui/diora_tui/app.py b/tui/diora_tui/app.py
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+"""diora-tui: terminal EPUB reader for diora, syncing books + reading progress
+against a diora server (see project README)."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import asyncio
+import getpass
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from textual import work
+from textual.app import App, ComposeResult
+from textual.binding import Binding
+from textual.screen import Screen
+from textual.widgets import Footer, Header, Label, ListItem, ListView
+
+from . import config as config_mod
+from . import crypto, epub, library_meta, progress, remote
+from .reader_screen import ReaderScreen
+from .statusbar import StatusBar
+
+DEFAULT_LIBRARY = Path.home() / "Books"
+
+
+class LibraryScreen(Screen):
+    BINDINGS = [
+        Binding("enter", "open_selected", "Öffnen"),
+        Binding("r", "toggle_read_filter", "Gelesene ein-/ausblenden"),
+        Binding("q", "quit", "Beenden"),
+    ]
+
+    def __init__(self, library_dir: Path) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        self.library_dir = library_dir
+        self.paths: list[Path] = []
+        self.visible_paths: list[Path] = []
+        self.show_read = False
+
+    def compose(self) -> ComposeResult:
+        yield Header()
+        yield ListView(id="library-list")
+        yield StatusBar()
+        yield Footer()
+
+    def on_mount(self) -> None:
+        self.sub_title = str(self.library_dir)
+        self._refresh_list()
+        cfg = config_mod.load()
+        if cfg is not None:
+            self._auto_sync(cfg)
+
+    @work(thread=True)
+    def _auto_sync(self, cfg: config_mod.RemoteConfig) -> None:
+        try:
+            result = remote.sync_library(self.library_dir, cfg)
+        except remote.SyncError:
+            return  # best-effort — e.g. offline; the local library still works
+        self.app.call_from_thread(self._on_auto_sync_done, result)
+
+    def _on_auto_sync_done(self, result: remote.SyncResult) -> None:
+        if result.downloaded or result.progress_pulled:
+            self._refresh_list()
+        if result.downloaded:
+            self.notify(f"{len(result.downloaded)} neue(s) Buch/Bücher synchronisiert.", timeout=3)
+
+    def _refresh_list(self) -> None:
+        self.paths = epub.scan_library(self.library_dir)
+
+        entries = []
+        for path in self.paths:
+            book_id = epub._book_id(path)
+            read = library_meta.is_read(book_id)
+            if read and not self.show_read:
+                continue
+            saved = progress.load(book_id)
+            last_opened = saved.updated_at if saved else 0.0
+            entries.append((last_opened, path, read))
+        entries.sort(key=lambda e: e[0], reverse=True)
+        self.visible_paths = [path for _, path, _ in entries]
+
+        list_view = self.query_one("#library-list", ListView)
+        list_view.clear()
+        if not self.paths:
+            list_view.append(ListItem(Label(f"Keine EPUBs gefunden in {self.library_dir}")))
+            return
+        if not entries:
+            list_view.append(ListItem(Label("Alle Bücher als gelesen markiert — 'r' zum Anzeigen")))
+            return
+        for _, path, read in entries:
+            label = f"✓ {path.stem}" if read else path.stem
+            list_view.append(ListItem(Label(label)))
+        list_view.index = 0
+        list_view.focus()
+
+    def action_toggle_read_filter(self) -> None:
+        self.show_read = not self.show_read
+        self._refresh_list()
+        state = "eingeblendet" if self.show_read else "ausgeblendet"
+        self.notify(f"Gelesene Bücher {state}.", timeout=2)
+
+    def action_open_selected(self) -> None:
+        list_view = self.query_one("#library-list", ListView)
+        if not self.visible_paths or list_view.index is None:
+            return
+        self.app.push_screen(ReaderScreen(self.visible_paths[list_view.index]))
+
+    def on_list_view_selected(self, event: ListView.Selected) -> None:
+        self.action_open_selected()
+
+
+class DioraTuiApp(App):
+    CSS_PATH = "app.tcss"
+    TITLE = "diora-tui"
+
+    def __init__(self, library_dir: Path) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        self.library_dir = library_dir
+
+    def on_mount(self) -> None:
+        self.push_screen(LibraryScreen(self.library_dir))
+
+    async def action_quit(self) -> None:
+        cfg = config_mod.load()
+        if cfg is not None:
+            try:
+                await asyncio.to_thread(remote.sync_library, self.library_dir, cfg)
+            except remote.SyncError:
+                pass  # best-effort — don't block quitting on a sync failure
+        self.exit()
+
+
+def _prompt(label: str, *, secret: bool = False) -> str:
+    value = (getpass.getpass(f"{label}: ") if secret else input(f"{label}: ")).strip()
+    if not value:
+        raise SystemExit(f"Abgebrochen: {label} darf nicht leer sein.")
+    return value
+
+
+def _ask_yes_no(question: str) -> bool:
+    return input(f"{question} [y/N]: ").strip().lower() in ("y", "yes", "j", "ja")
+
+
+def _prompt_enc_key() -> str:
+    print()
+    print("Verschlüsselungs-Key — zwei Wege:")
+    print("  [1] Aus Benutzername + Passwort ableiten (wie diora's 'Unlock'-Formular im Browser)")
+    print("  [2] Base64-Key direkt einfügen (z.B. per Browser-Konsole exportiert)")
+    choice = input("Wahl [1/2, Standard 1]: ").strip() or "1"
+    if choice == "2":
+        return _prompt("Verschlüsselungs-Key (Base64)", secret=True)
+
+    print(
+        "Hinweis: das liefert nur dann den richtigen Key, wenn dieser Account je über "
+        "diora's Passwort-Ableitung ('Unlock with password' im Browser) entsperrt wurde. "
+        "War der Key dort nur automatisch zufällig erzeugt, kommt hier ein anderer "
+        "(falscher) Key raus — 'sync' meldet das dann als Entschlüsselungsfehler, ohne "
+        "etwas kaputtzumachen; in dem Fall stattdessen [2] mit dem exportierten Key nutzen."
+    )
+    username = _prompt("diora-Benutzername")
+    password = _prompt("diora-Passwort", secret=True)
+    return crypto.derive_key_b64(username, password)
+
+
+def _resolve_remote_config(server_override: str | None, *, save: bool) -> config_mod.RemoteConfig:
+    cfg = None if server_override else config_mod.load()
+    if cfg is not None:
+        return cfg
+
+    print("Keine gespeicherten Zugangsdaten gefunden — bitte einmalig eingeben.")
+    server_url = (server_override or _prompt("Server-URL (z.B. https://diora.creamfresh.xyz)")).rstrip("/")
+    token = _prompt("API-Token (diora → Einstellungen → /accounts/settings/)", secret=True)
+    enc_key = _prompt_enc_key()
+    cfg = config_mod.RemoteConfig(server_url=server_url, api_token=token, enc_key_b64=enc_key)
+    if save or _ask_yes_no("Zugangsdaten lokal speichern, damit du sie nicht erneut eingeben musst?"):
+        config_mod.save(cfg)
+        print("Gespeichert.")
+    return cfg
+
+
+def run_sync(library_dir: Path, server_override: str | None, *, save: bool) -> None:
+    cfg = _resolve_remote_config(server_override, save=save)
+    print(f"Verbinde zu {cfg.server_url} …")
+    try:
+        result = remote.sync_library(library_dir, cfg)
+    except remote.SyncError as e:
+        raise SystemExit(f"Fehler: {e}")
+
+    print(f"{len(result.downloaded)} Buch/Bücher neu heruntergeladen nach {library_dir}.")
+    for name in result.downloaded:
+        print(f"  + {name}")
+    if result.unchanged:
+        print(f"{result.unchanged} Buch/Bücher bereits lokal vorhanden, übersprungen.")
+    if result.skipped_pdf:
+        titles = ", ".join(result.skipped_pdf)
+        print(f"{len(result.skipped_pdf)} PDF(s) übersprungen (TUI liest aktuell nur EPUB): {titles}")
+    if result.failed:
+        titles = ", ".join(result.failed)
+        print(f"{len(result.failed)} Buch/Bücher konnten nicht entschlüsselt werden (falscher Key?): {titles}")
+    if result.progress_pulled:
+        print(f"Lesefortschritt für {result.progress_pulled} Buch/Bücher vom Server übernommen.")
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description="diora-tui — lokaler EPUB-Reader (Vorstufe des diora-Sync-Clients)"
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--library",
+        type=Path,
+        default=DEFAULT_LIBRARY,
+        help=f"Verzeichnis mit EPUB-Dateien (Standard: {DEFAULT_LIBRARY})",
+    )
+    subparsers = parser.add_subparsers(dest="command")
+    sync_parser = subparsers.add_parser("sync", help="EPUBs vom diora-Server holen und entschlüsseln")
+    sync_parser.add_argument("--server", help="Server-URL, überschreibt gespeicherte Zugangsdaten für diesen Lauf")
+    sync_parser.add_argument(
+        "--save", action="store_true", help="Eingegebene Zugangsdaten lokal speichern, ohne zu fragen"
+    )
+
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    library_dir = args.library.expanduser()
+
+    if args.command == "sync":
+        run_sync(library_dir, args.server, save=args.save)
+        return
+
+    DioraTuiApp(library_dir).run()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/tui/diora_tui/app.tcss b/tui/diora_tui/app.tcss
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+#library-list {
+    height: 1fr;
+}
+
+StatusBar {
+    dock: bottom;
+    height: 1;
+    padding: 0 1;
+    background: $panel;
+    color: $text-muted;
+    text-align: right;
+}
+
+#reader-scroll {
+    height: 1fr;
+    padding: 1 2;
+    align-horizontal: center;
+}
+
+#reader-loading {
+    height: 1fr;
+}
+
+FootnoteScreen {
+    align: center middle;
+}
+
+#footnote-body {
+    width: 80%;
+    max-width: 100;
+    height: auto;
+    max-height: 80%;
+    background: $panel;
+    border: round $primary;
+    padding: 1 2;
+}
+
+.footnote-note {
+    margin-bottom: 1;
+}
+
+#footnote-hint {
+    dock: bottom;
+    width: 80%;
+    max-width: 100;
+    background: $panel;
+    color: $text-muted;
+    padding: 0 2;
+}
diff --git a/tui/diora_tui/blocks.py b/tui/diora_tui/blocks.py
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+"""Whole-book flat block extraction, matching static/js/app.js's EPUB_BLOCK_SELECTOR
+and getPositionAnchor()/restoreFromAnchor() exactly in *structure* (blockIndex is
+purely DOM order, no rendering needed) so position anchors are comparable across
+the web reader and this TUI. See CLAUDE.md's `tui/` section for the full picture.
+
+innerFraction on the web is defined via getBoundingClientRect() pixel geometry,
+which has no TUI equivalent — a terminal has no font metrics/reflow the way a
+browser does. We approximate it with row-based geometry from Rich's own text
+wrapping (see reader.py), which is close enough because the server's "furthest
+wins" comparison (_progress_is_further) only falls back to comparing fractions
+when two anchors share the exact same block index — block index is the primary,
+exactly-reproducible signal.
+
+Footnote references are detected with the same heuristic as app.js's
+_looksLikeFootnoteLink: wrapped in/wrapping a <sup>, a class name containing
+note/footnote/fn, or an epub:type="noteref" attribute.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import re
+import warnings
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import ebooklib
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, NavigableString, Tag, XMLParsedAsHTMLWarning
+from ebooklib import epub
+
+# EPUB content documents are XHTML; treating them as HTML (matching app.js's
+# `new DOMParser().parseFromString(html, 'text/html')`, static/js/app.js:2638)
+# is intentional, not a mistake — silence bs4's XML-vs-HTML nudge for it.
+# lxml's HTML parser is ~3x faster than bs4's built-in html.parser, which
+# matters here: some real-world EPUBs run to tens of thousands of blocks.
+warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", category=XMLParsedAsHTMLWarning)
+_PARSER = "lxml"
+
+# Matches app.js's EPUB_BLOCK_SELECTOR = 'p, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, li,
+# blockquote, dt, dd, figcaption, div:not(:has(*))'
+_BLOCK_TAGS = {"p", "h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5", "h6", "li", "blockquote", "dt", "dd", "figcaption"}
+# Matches app.js's sanitizeEpubHtml() strip list (script/style are also stripped
+# via regex before DOMParser even runs there; decomposing here is equivalent).
+_STRIP_TAGS = ["script", "style", "iframe", "object", "embed", "head", "meta", "link"]
+# Matches app.js's _looksLikeFootnoteLink's class-name check.
+_FOOTNOTE_CLASS_RE = re.compile(r"\bnote|\bfootnote|\bfn\b")
+
+# Anchor format the server accepts (books/views.py:save_progress); anything else
+# is silently discarded back to ''.
+_ANCHOR_RE = re.compile(r"\d{1,7}:\d(\.\d{1,6})?")
+
+
+@dataclass
+class FootnoteRef:
+    marker: str  # visible text of the reference link, e.g. "1"
+    offset: int  # character offset into the block's text where the marker sits
+    target_id: str  # fragment id to resolve against block ids
+
+
+@dataclass
+class Block:
+    text: str
+    tag: str
+    chapter_index: int
+    id: str | None = None
+    footnotes: list[FootnoteRef] = field(default_factory=list)
+    # Every id found anywhere in this block's subtree, not just on the block
+    # element itself — footnote *targets* are frequently an <a id="..."> or
+    # similar nested a level or two inside the actual containing paragraph
+    # (see showFootnotePopover's `.closest('.footnote') || .parentElement`
+    # walk-up in app.js), so a target id resolves to "the block containing
+    # it" rather than requiring the id to sit on the block tag itself.
+    ids: list[str] = field(default_factory=list)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class FlatBook:
+    id: str
+    title: str
+    author: str
+    path: Path
+    blocks: list[Block]
+    chapter_titles: list[str]
+    chapter_start_block: list[int]  # blocks[chapter_start_block[i]] is chapter i's first block
+    footnote_targets: dict[str, int]  # fragment id -> block index of its content
+
+
+def _is_leaf_div(tag: Tag) -> bool:
+    return tag.name == "div" and tag.find(True) is None
+
+
+def _looks_like_footnote_link(el: Tag, href: str) -> bool:
+    if "#" not in href:
+        return False
+    cls = " ".join(el.get("class") or []).lower()
+    if _FOOTNOTE_CLASS_RE.search(cls):
+        return True
+    epub_type = (el.get("epub:type") or "").lower()
+    if "noteref" in epub_type:
+        return True
+    return el.find_parent("sup") is not None or el.find("sup") is not None
+
+
+def _walk_text(el: Tag, footnotes: list[FootnoteRef], out: list[str]) -> None:
+    for child in el.children:
+        if isinstance(child, NavigableString):
+            out.append(str(child))
+        elif isinstance(child, Tag):
+            if child.name == "a":
+                href = child.get("href") or ""
+                if _looks_like_footnote_link(child, href):
+                    marker = child.get_text(" ", strip=True)
+                    offset = len("".join(out))
+                    target_id = href.split("#", 1)[1] if "#" in href else ""
+                    footnotes.append(FootnoteRef(marker=marker, offset=offset, target_id=target_id))
+                    out.append(marker)
+                    continue
+            _walk_text(child, footnotes, out)
+
+
+def _extract_blocks(html: bytes, chapter_index: int) -> list[Block]:
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, _PARSER)
+    for name in _STRIP_TAGS:
+        for el in soup.find_all(name):
+            el.decompose()
+
+    blocks: list[Block] = []
+    for el in soup.find_all(True):
+        if el.name in _BLOCK_TAGS or _is_leaf_div(el):
+            footnotes: list[FootnoteRef] = []
+            parts: list[str] = []
+            _walk_text(el, footnotes, parts)
+            text = re.sub(r"\s+", " ", "".join(parts)).strip()
+            ids = [tag_id for tag_id in (el.get("id"), *(d.get("id") for d in el.find_all(True))) if tag_id]
+            blocks.append(
+                Block(
+                    text=text,
+                    tag=el.name,
+                    chapter_index=chapter_index,
+                    id=el.get("id"),
+                    footnotes=footnotes,
+                    ids=ids,
+                )
+            )
+    return blocks
+
+
+def load_flat_book(path: Path) -> FlatBook:
+    from .epub import _book_id  # reuse the same path-hash id scheme
+
+    raw = epub.read_epub(str(path), options={"ignore_ncx": True})
+
+    title_meta = raw.get_metadata("DC", "title")
+    title = title_meta[0][0] if title_meta else path.stem
+    author_meta = raw.get_metadata("DC", "creator")
+    author = author_meta[0][0] if author_meta else "Unbekannt"
+
+    blocks: list[Block] = []
+    chapter_titles: list[str] = []
+    chapter_start_block: list[int] = []
+
+    # app.js's parseEpub() includes every spine itemref unconditionally — no
+    # `linear` filtering (static/js/app.js:2623-2625) — since footnote/endnote
+    # targets are commonly parked in a linear="no" document. Skipping it here
+    # would both break footnote-target resolution and shift blockIndex
+    # numbering out of sync with the web reader for every block after it.
+    for idref, _linear in raw.spine:
+        item = raw.get_item_with_id(idref)
+        if item is None or item.get_type() != ebooklib.ITEM_DOCUMENT:
+            continue
+        chapter_index = len(chapter_titles)
+        chapter_blocks = _extract_blocks(item.get_content(), chapter_index)
+        chapter_start_block.append(len(blocks))
+        first_text = next((b.text for b in chapter_blocks if b.text), None)
+        chapter_titles.append((first_text or item.get_name())[:60])
+        blocks.extend(chapter_blocks)
+
+    footnote_targets: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for idx, b in enumerate(blocks):
+        for tag_id in b.ids:
+            footnote_targets.setdefault(tag_id, idx)
+
+    return FlatBook(
+        id=_book_id(path),
+        title=title,
+        author=author,
+        path=path,
+        blocks=blocks,
+        chapter_titles=chapter_titles,
+        chapter_start_block=chapter_start_block,
+        footnote_targets=footnote_targets,
+    )
+
+
+def format_anchor(block_index: int, inner_fraction: float) -> str:
+    inner_fraction = max(0.0, min(1.0, inner_fraction))
+    return f"{block_index}:{inner_fraction:.6f}"
+
+
+def parse_anchor(anchor: str) -> tuple[int, float] | None:
+    if not anchor or not _ANCHOR_RE.fullmatch(anchor):
+        return None
+    block_str, _, frac_str = anchor.partition(":")
+    return int(block_str), float(frac_str)
+
+
+def anchor_is_further(new_anchor: str, old_anchor: str) -> bool:
+    """Mirrors _progress_is_further / _cmpProgress (books/views.py, app.js)."""
+    new_parts = parse_anchor(new_anchor)
+    old_parts = parse_anchor(old_anchor)
+    if new_parts is None or old_parts is None:
+        return bool(new_anchor) and not old_anchor
+    nb, ni = new_parts
+    ob, oi = old_parts
+    return ni >= oi if nb == ob else nb >= ob
diff --git a/tui/diora_tui/book_view.py b/tui/diora_tui/book_view.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9ccc14e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tui/diora_tui/book_view.py
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+"""Line-API scroll view for the continuous reader — renders only the rows
+actually visible on screen (via Widget.render_line), reading from the flat
+Strip list diora_tui.layout.build_layout() precomputed once. This is what
+keeps very large books responsive: nothing here scales with book size at
+paint time, only with viewport height.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from textual.geometry import Size
+from textual.scroll_view import ScrollView
+from textual.strip import Strip
+
+from .layout import BookLayout
+
+
+class ContinuousBookView(ScrollView):
+    # We always wrap text to fit exactly, so a horizontal scrollbar should
+    # never be needed — and "scroll" (not "auto") for the vertical one keeps
+    # its gutter reserved from the very first (still-empty) layout pass, so
+    # the width we wrap text at later never has to guess whether a scrollbar
+    # will appear and steal columns out from under already-wrapped lines.
+    DEFAULT_CSS = """
+    ContinuousBookView {
+        overflow-x: hidden;
+        overflow-y: scroll;
+    }
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, book_layout: BookLayout) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        self.book_layout = book_layout
+        self.virtual_size = Size(book_layout.width, book_layout.total_rows)
+
+    def render_line(self, y: int) -> Strip:
+        _scroll_x, scroll_y = self.scroll_offset
+        row = scroll_y + y
+        strips = self.book_layout.row_strips
+        width = self.scrollable_content_region.width
+        if row < 0 or row >= len(strips):
+            return Strip.blank(width, self.rich_style)
+        return strips[row].crop_extend(0, width, self.rich_style)
diff --git a/tui/diora_tui/cache.py b/tui/diora_tui/cache.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..21340b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tui/diora_tui/cache.py
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+"""On-disk cache for the (FlatBook, BookLayout) pair a book open computes —
+extraction + row-layout for very large books (tens of thousands of blocks)
+can take several seconds each; reopening the same book at the same terminal
+width should be near-instant instead of paying that cost again every time.
+
+Not a correctness-critical cache: any miss (new book, different width, edited
+file) just falls back to recomputing from scratch, so a stale/corrupt cache
+entry is handled by overwriting it, never by crashing the reader.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import pickle
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from platformdirs import user_cache_dir
+
+from .blocks import FlatBook
+from .layout import BookLayout
+
+_CACHE_DIR = Path(user_cache_dir("diora-tui", "diora")) / "layout_cache"
+
+
+def _cache_key(path: Path, width: int) -> str:
+    stat = path.stat()
+    raw = f"{path.resolve()}|{stat.st_size}|{stat.st_mtime_ns}|{width}"
+    return hashlib.sha256(raw.encode()).hexdigest()[:32]
+
+
+def load(path: Path, width: int) -> tuple[FlatBook, BookLayout] | None:
+    cache_file = _CACHE_DIR / f"{_cache_key(path, width)}.pickle"
+    if not cache_file.exists():
+        return None
+    try:
+        with cache_file.open("rb") as f:
+            book, book_layout = pickle.load(f)
+        if not isinstance(book, FlatBook) or not isinstance(book_layout, BookLayout):
+            return None
+        return book, book_layout
+    except Exception:
+        return None
+
+
+def save(path: Path, width: int, book: FlatBook, book_layout: BookLayout) -> None:
+    _CACHE_DIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    cache_file = _CACHE_DIR / f"{_cache_key(path, width)}.pickle"
+    try:
+        with cache_file.open("wb") as f:
+            pickle.dump((book, book_layout), f, protocol=pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)
+    except Exception:
+        pass  # best-effort — a failed cache write shouldn't break reading
diff --git a/tui/diora_tui/config.py b/tui/diora_tui/config.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bc82a5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tui/diora_tui/config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+"""Local storage for diora server credentials used by `diora-tui sync`.
+
+Mirrors the trust model of the web client's key storage (static/js/app.js,
+getOrCreateEncKey/exportEncKey): the raw AES-256 key and API token are kept
+in plaintext on disk, scoped to this machine/user (0600), with no additional
+at-rest encryption — same exposure as the browser's localStorage already has.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import stat
+from dataclasses import asdict, dataclass
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from platformdirs import user_config_dir
+
+_CONFIG_DIR = Path(user_config_dir("diora-tui", "diora"))
+_CONFIG_FILE = _CONFIG_DIR / "config.json"
+
+
+@dataclass
+class RemoteConfig:
+    server_url: str
+    api_token: str
+    enc_key_b64: str
+
+
+def load() -> RemoteConfig | None:
+    if not _CONFIG_FILE.exists():
+        return None
+    try:
+        data = json.loads(_CONFIG_FILE.read_text())
+        return RemoteConfig(**data)
+    except (json.JSONDecodeError, OSError, TypeError):
+        return None
+
+
+def save(cfg: RemoteConfig) -> None:
+    _CONFIG_DIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    _CONFIG_FILE.write_text(json.dumps(asdict(cfg), indent=2))
+    _CONFIG_FILE.chmod(stat.S_IRUSR | stat.S_IWUSR)
diff --git a/tui/diora_tui/crypto.py b/tui/diora_tui/crypto.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..75a1a7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tui/diora_tui/crypto.py
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+"""AES-256-GCM helpers matching static/js/app.js's encryptBytes/decryptBytes
+(Web Crypto AES-GCM, 12-byte IV hex-encoded, ciphertext base64, key handled
+as raw bytes) — diora's books are end-to-end encrypted client-side, so the
+server (and this module) only ever sees ciphertext plus the key the user
+supplies out-of-band.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import base64
+
+from cryptography.exceptions import InvalidTag
+from cryptography.hazmat.primitives import hashes
+from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.ciphers.aead import AESGCM
+from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.kdf.pbkdf2 import PBKDF2HMAC
+
+_PBKDF2_ITERATIONS = 200_000
+_KEY_LENGTH_BYTES = 32
+
+
+class DecryptError(Exception):
+    """Ciphertext could not be decrypted with the given key (wrong key, or corrupt data)."""
+
+
+def decrypt(key_b64: str, iv_hex: str, ciphertext_b64: str) -> bytes:
+    try:
+        key = base64.b64decode(key_b64)
+        iv = bytes.fromhex(iv_hex)
+        ct = base64.b64decode(ciphertext_b64)
+        return AESGCM(key).decrypt(iv, ct, None)
+    except (InvalidTag, ValueError) as e:
+        raise DecryptError(str(e)) from e
+
+
+def derive_key_b64(username: str, password: str) -> str:
+    """Re-derive the AES-256 key the same way app.js's deriveAndStoreKey() does:
+    PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256, 200000 iterations, salt = "diora:" + username. Only
+    yields the key that actually decrypts a user's books if that account's
+    key was ever set up via diora's "unlock with password" flow — a browser
+    that only ever auto-generated a random key (the default) has a key this
+    can't reproduce.
+    """
+    salt = f"diora:{username}".encode("utf-8")
+    kdf = PBKDF2HMAC(
+        algorithm=hashes.SHA256(),
+        length=_KEY_LENGTH_BYTES,
+        salt=salt,
+        iterations=_PBKDF2_ITERATIONS,
+    )
+    raw = kdf.derive(password.encode("utf-8"))
+    return base64.b64encode(raw).decode()
diff --git a/tui/diora_tui/epub.py b/tui/diora_tui/epub.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e5eaaa2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tui/diora_tui/epub.py
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+"""Library scanning and the stable per-book id shared across progress.py,
+blocks.py, and remote.py."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+from pathlib import Path
+
+
+def _book_id(path: Path) -> str:
+    # Identifies a book by its resolved path for now. Once the sync API exists,
+    # this should switch to whatever stable id diora assigns server-side.
+    return hashlib.sha256(str(path.resolve()).encode()).hexdigest()[:16]
+
+
+def scan_library(library_dir: Path) -> list[Path]:
+    if not library_dir.exists():
+        return []
+    return sorted(library_dir.rglob("*.epub"))
diff --git a/tui/diora_tui/layout.py b/tui/diora_tui/layout.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e7700f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tui/diora_tui/layout.py
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+"""Row-based layout for the continuous reader view — the TUI's terminal-grid
+analogue of the browser's pixel-based getBoundingClientRect() geometry (see
+blocks.py's module docstring for why blockIndex is exact but innerFraction is
+only an approximation here).
+
+Each block is wrapped independently at a known width, once, into a flat list
+of pre-rendered Strip objects (one per terminal row) that book_view.py's
+Line-API widget indexes directly in render_line() — this is what makes very
+large books (tens of thousands of blocks) open in seconds rather than
+minutes: Textual only ever renders the rows actually on screen, instead of
+laying out the whole book up front the way a single giant Static would.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+
+from rich.console import Console
+from rich.text import Text
+from textual.strip import Strip
+
+_SEPARATOR_ROWS = 1  # one blank row between blocks, matching the old "\n\n".join style
+
+
+@dataclass
+class BookLayout:
+    starts: list[int]  # row where block i begins
+    heights: list[int]  # rendered row count for block i
+    row_strips: list[Strip]  # one Strip per absolute row, len == total_rows
+    total_rows: int
+    width: int
+
+
+def build_layout(block_texts: list[str], width: int, console: Console) -> BookLayout:
+    width = max(1, width)
+    starts: list[int] = []
+    heights: list[int] = []
+    row_strips: list[Strip] = []
+    blank = Strip.blank(width)
+    row = 0
+    for text in block_texts:
+        starts.append(row)
+        wrapped_lines = list(Text(text).wrap(console, width)) if text else []
+        if not wrapped_lines:
+            wrapped_lines = [Text("")]
+        heights.append(len(wrapped_lines))
+        for line in wrapped_lines:
+            strip = Strip(line.render(console), None).adjust_cell_length(width)
+            row_strips.append(strip)
+        row_strips.append(blank)
+        row += len(wrapped_lines) + _SEPARATOR_ROWS
+
+    return BookLayout(starts=starts, heights=heights, row_strips=row_strips, total_rows=row, width=width)
+
+
+def get_position_anchor(layout: BookLayout, scroll_y: int) -> tuple[int, float]:
+    """Mirrors app.js's getPositionAnchor(): the last block whose top row is at
+    or above scroll_y, or the first block if none has scrolled that far yet."""
+    n = len(layout.heights)
+    if n == 0:
+        return 0, 0.0
+
+    best_index = 0
+    found = False
+    for i in range(n):
+        if layout.heights[i] < 1:
+            continue
+        if layout.starts[i] > scroll_y:
+            break
+        best_index = i
+        found = True
+
+    if not found:
+        best_index = next((i for i in range(n) if layout.heights[i] >= 1), 0)
+
+    top = layout.starts[best_index]
+    height = max(1, layout.heights[best_index])
+    inner_fraction = max(0.0, min(1.0, (scroll_y - top) / height))
+    return best_index, inner_fraction
+
+
+def scroll_y_for_anchor(layout: BookLayout, block_index: int, inner_fraction: float) -> int:
+    """Mirrors app.js's restoreFromAnchor()."""
+    n = len(layout.heights)
+    if n == 0:
+        return 0
+    idx = max(0, min(block_index, n - 1))
+    top = layout.starts[idx]
+    height = layout.heights[idx]
+    return top + round(inner_fraction * height)
diff --git a/tui/diora_tui/library_meta.py b/tui/diora_tui/library_meta.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5cf9ea2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tui/diora_tui/library_meta.py
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+"""Local per-book metadata pulled from the server — currently just "read"
+status (EBook.is_read from the /api/sync/ snapshot). Kept separate from
+progress.py (reading position): different concern, different cadence — this
+is only ever set by `diora-tui sync`, never by the reader itself.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from platformdirs import user_data_dir
+
+_DATA_DIR = Path(user_data_dir("diora-tui", "diora"))
+_META_FILE = _DATA_DIR / "library.json"
+
+
+def _load_all() -> dict[str, dict]:
+    if not _META_FILE.exists():
+        return {}
+    try:
+        return json.loads(_META_FILE.read_text())
+    except (json.JSONDecodeError, OSError):
+        return {}
+
+
+def _save_all(data: dict[str, dict]) -> None:
+    _DATA_DIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    _META_FILE.write_text(json.dumps(data, indent=2))
+
+
+def is_read(book_id: str) -> bool:
+    entry = _load_all().get(book_id)
+    return bool(entry and entry.get("is_read"))
+
+
+def set_many(read_status: dict[str, bool]) -> None:
+    if not read_status:
+        return
+    data = _load_all()
+    for book_id, read in read_status.items():
+        data.setdefault(book_id, {})["is_read"] = read
+    _save_all(data)
diff --git a/tui/diora_tui/progress.py b/tui/diora_tui/progress.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..588e24b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tui/diora_tui/progress.py
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+"""Local reading-progress storage.
+
+Positions are stored as the same "blockIndex:innerFraction" anchor string the
+server uses (books/models.py, EBookProgress.save_progress) — see
+diora_tui/blocks.py for how blockIndex is computed to match static/js/app.js
+exactly, and anchor_is_further() for the identical "furthest wins" comparison
+used server-side (_progress_is_further in books/views.py). A saved position
+only ever advances (unless forced), so an older/offline run can't regress a
+further-along read position — matching that same rule locally.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from platformdirs import user_data_dir
+
+from .blocks import anchor_is_further
+
+_DATA_DIR = Path(user_data_dir("diora-tui", "diora"))
+_PROGRESS_FILE = _DATA_DIR / "progress.json"
+
+
+@dataclass
+class Position:
+    anchor: str  # "blockIndex:innerFraction", e.g. "42:0.500000"
+    updated_at: float = 0.0
+
+
+def _load_all() -> dict[str, dict]:
+    if not _PROGRESS_FILE.exists():
+        return {}
+    try:
+        return json.loads(_PROGRESS_FILE.read_text())
+    except (json.JSONDecodeError, OSError):
+        return {}
+
+
+def _save_all(data: dict[str, dict]) -> None:
+    _DATA_DIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    _PROGRESS_FILE.write_text(json.dumps(data, indent=2))
+
+
+def load(book_id: str) -> Position | None:
+    entry = _load_all().get(book_id)
+    if not isinstance(entry, dict) or not entry.get("anchor"):
+        return None
+    return Position(anchor=entry["anchor"], updated_at=entry.get("updated_at", 0.0))
+
+
+def save(book_id: str, position: Position, *, force: bool = False) -> bool:
+    """Returns True if the position was actually written (i.e. it was further
+    along, or forced) — callers that push to the server only need to do so
+    when this returns True."""
+    data = _load_all()
+    existing = data.get(book_id)
+    if existing is not None and not force:
+        old_anchor = existing.get("anchor", "")
+        if not anchor_is_further(position.anchor, old_anchor):
+            return False
+    if not position.updated_at:
+        position.updated_at = time.time()
+    data[book_id] = {"anchor": position.anchor, "updated_at": position.updated_at}
+    _save_all(data)
+    return True
diff --git a/tui/diora_tui/reader_screen.py b/tui/diora_tui/reader_screen.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6d4392b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tui/diora_tui/reader_screen.py
@@ -0,0 +1,286 @@
+"""Continuous whole-book reader screen — mirrors the web reader's single
+scrollable view (see blocks.py's module docstring) instead of the old
+per-chapter pagination, so reading position is expressed in the same
+"blockIndex:innerFraction" anchor space as the server and the web client.
+
+Uses book_view.ContinuousBookView (a Line-API widget) rather than dumping the
+whole book into one Static: for large books (tens of thousands of blocks) a
+single giant renderable made Textual's layout/paint pass take upwards of a
+minute, whereas the Line API only ever renders the rows on screen.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import bisect
+import re
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from rich.console import Console
+from textual import work
+from textual.binding import Binding
+from textual.containers import Container, VerticalScroll
+from textual.geometry import Size
+from textual.screen import ModalScreen, Screen
+from textual.widgets import Footer, Header, Label, LoadingIndicator, Static
+
+from . import api, blocks, cache, config as config_mod, layout, progress
+from .book_view import ContinuousBookView
+from .statusbar import StatusBar
+
+MAX_LINE_WIDTH = 120
+AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL = 5.0
+# ContinuousBookView forces its vertical scrollbar always-on (see book_view.py)
+# so this stays constant — measuring the container's width and subtracting
+# this fixed amount avoids a measure-after-constrain race against book_view's
+# own (possibly already-constrained-from-a-previous-layout) width.
+SCROLLBAR_GUTTER = 2
+
+_EMPTY_LAYOUT = layout.BookLayout(starts=[], heights=[], row_strips=[], total_rows=0, width=1)
+
+# Downloaded-via-sync files are named "<server-id> - <title>.epub" (see
+# remote.py) — reused here to find the server book id for progress push.
+_SERVER_ID_RE = re.compile(r"^(\d{4,7}) - ")
+
+
+def _server_book_id(path: Path) -> int | None:
+    m = _SERVER_ID_RE.match(path.name)
+    return int(m.group(1)) if m else None
+
+
+class FootnoteScreen(ModalScreen[None]):
+    BINDINGS = [Binding("escape,f,q", "dismiss_self", "Schließen")]
+
+    def __init__(self, notes: list[str]) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        self._notes = notes
+
+    def compose(self):
+        with VerticalScroll(id="footnote-body"):
+            for note in self._notes:
+                yield Static(note, classes="footnote-note")
+        yield Label("Escape/f zum Schließen", id="footnote-hint")
+
+    def action_dismiss_self(self) -> None:
+        self.dismiss(None)
+
+
+class ReaderScreen(Screen):
+    BINDINGS = [
+        Binding("j,down", "scroll_down_line", "Runter", show=False),
+        Binding("k,up", "scroll_up_line", "Hoch", show=False),
+        Binding("n", "next_chapter", "Nächstes Kapitel"),
+        Binding("p", "prev_chapter", "Vorheriges Kapitel"),
+        Binding("f", "peek_footnote", "Fußnote"),
+        Binding("q,escape", "back", "Zurück zur Bibliothek"),
+    ]
+
+    def __init__(self, path: Path) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        self.path = path
+        self.book: blocks.FlatBook | None = None
+        self.book_layout: layout.BookLayout = _EMPTY_LAYOUT
+        self._server_id = _server_book_id(path)
+        self._remote_cfg = config_mod.load() if self._server_id is not None else None
+        self._last_pushed_anchor = ""
+
+    def compose(self):
+        yield Header()
+        yield LoadingIndicator(id="reader-loading")
+        with Container(id="reader-scroll") as scroll_container:
+            self._scroll_container = scroll_container
+            # Stays visible (empty) from the start rather than toggling display
+            # on once loaded — a widget that's just been switched from hidden
+            # to visible hasn't been through a layout pass yet, so its `.size`
+            # is still (0, 0) and an immediate scroll_to() right after has
+            # nothing to clamp against and silently resets to 0.
+            self._book_view = ContinuousBookView(_EMPTY_LAYOUT)
+            yield self._book_view
+        yield StatusBar()
+        yield Footer()
+
+    def on_mount(self) -> None:
+        # Deferred rather than read synchronously here: right after mount the
+        # container hasn't been through a layout pass yet, so its size isn't
+        # reliable — same lesson as the scroll-restore race below.
+        self.call_after_refresh(self._start_loading)
+
+    def _start_loading(self) -> None:
+        if self._scroll_container.size.width == 0:
+            # Not sized yet after all — keep deferring instead of guessing a
+            # fixed number of refresh cycles (mirrors _restore_position below).
+            self.call_after_refresh(self._start_loading)
+            return
+        self._load_book(self._content_width())
+
+    @work(thread=True)
+    def _load_book(self, width: int) -> None:
+        cached = cache.load(self.path, width)
+        if cached is not None:
+            book, book_layout = cached
+        else:
+            book = blocks.load_flat_book(self.path)
+            console = Console(width=width)
+            book_layout = layout.build_layout([b.text for b in book.blocks], width, console)
+            cache.save(self.path, width, book, book_layout)
+        self.app.call_from_thread(self._on_book_loaded, book, book_layout, width)
+
+    def _on_book_loaded(self, book: blocks.FlatBook, book_layout: layout.BookLayout, width: int) -> None:
+        self.book = book
+        self.sub_title = book.title
+        self._apply_layout(book_layout, width)
+        self.query_one("#reader-loading", LoadingIndicator).display = False
+        self.call_after_refresh(self._restore_position)
+        self.set_interval(AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL, self._autosave)
+
+    def _content_width(self) -> int:
+        # Measuring the *container* rather than book_view's own size avoids a
+        # measure-after-constrain race: once a layout has been applied,
+        # book_view's width is pinned to a previous value via styles.width
+        # (below), so re-measuring book_view itself on a later resize would
+        # just read that stale pinned width back instead of the new
+        # available space. The container's width is unaffected by that.
+        available = self._scroll_container.size.width - SCROLLBAR_GUTTER
+        return max(20, min(MAX_LINE_WIDTH, available))
+
+    def _apply_layout(self, book_layout: layout.BookLayout, width: int) -> None:
+        self.book_layout = book_layout
+        # Pin book_view's outer width to content-width-plus-scrollbar so its
+        # *inner* content region (what render_line actually draws into) ends
+        # up exactly `width` — matching what block texts were wrapped at.
+        self._book_view.styles.width = width + SCROLLBAR_GUTTER
+        self._book_view.book_layout = book_layout
+        self._book_view.virtual_size = Size(width, book_layout.total_rows)
+        self._book_view.refresh()
+
+    def _build_layout(self) -> None:
+        assert self.book is not None
+        width = self._content_width()
+        console = Console(width=width)
+        block_texts = [b.text for b in self.book.blocks]
+        new_layout = layout.build_layout(block_texts, width, console)
+        cache.save(self.path, width, self.book, new_layout)
+        self._apply_layout(new_layout, width)
+
+    def on_resize(self) -> None:
+        if self.book is None:
+            return
+        old_y = self._book_view.scroll_y
+        anchor_block, anchor_frac = layout.get_position_anchor(self.book_layout, old_y)
+        self._build_layout()
+        new_y = layout.scroll_y_for_anchor(self.book_layout, anchor_block, anchor_frac)
+        self._book_view.scroll_to(y=new_y, animate=False, immediate=True)
+
+    def _restore_position(self, attempt: int = 0) -> None:
+        if self.book is None:
+            return
+        saved = progress.load(self.book.id)
+        if saved is None:
+            return
+        parsed = blocks.parse_anchor(saved.anchor)
+        if parsed is None:
+            return
+        block_index, inner_fraction = parsed
+        y = layout.scroll_y_for_anchor(self.book_layout, block_index, inner_fraction)
+        if y <= 0:
+            return
+        self._book_view.scroll_to(y=y, animate=False, immediate=True)
+        # A widget that's only just become part of the layout doesn't always
+        # honor an immediate scroll on the first attempt (its own size/scroll
+        # bounds can still be mid-update) — verify it actually landed and
+        # retry a bounded number of times rather than guessing a fixed delay.
+        if attempt < 20 and abs(self._book_view.scroll_y - y) > 1:
+            self.call_after_refresh(lambda: self._restore_position(attempt + 1))
+
+    def _current_anchor_str(self) -> str:
+        block_index, inner_fraction = layout.get_position_anchor(self.book_layout, self._book_view.scroll_y)
+        return blocks.format_anchor(block_index, inner_fraction)
+
+    def _autosave(self) -> None:
+        self._save_progress()
+
+    def _save_progress(self) -> None:
+        if self.book is None or not self.book_layout.heights:
+            return
+        anchor = self._current_anchor_str()
+        advanced = progress.save(self.book.id, progress.Position(anchor=anchor))
+        if advanced and self._remote_cfg is not None and self._server_id is not None:
+            self._push_remote_progress(anchor)
+
+    @work(thread=True, exclusive=True, group="progress-push")
+    def _push_remote_progress(self, anchor: str) -> None:
+        if anchor == self._last_pushed_anchor or self._remote_cfg is None or self._server_id is None:
+            return
+        try:
+            api.post_progress(
+                self._remote_cfg.server_url,
+                self._remote_cfg.api_token,
+                self._server_id,
+                scroll_fraction=0.0,
+                position_anchor=anchor,
+                force=False,
+            )
+            self._last_pushed_anchor = anchor
+        except Exception:
+            pass  # best-effort — local progress is already saved regardless
+
+    def on_unmount(self) -> None:
+        self._save_progress()
+
+    def action_scroll_down_line(self) -> None:
+        self._book_view.scroll_relative(y=1, animate=False)
+
+    def action_scroll_up_line(self) -> None:
+        self._book_view.scroll_relative(y=-1, animate=False)
+
+    def _current_chapter_index(self) -> int:
+        if self.book is None:
+            return 0
+        block_index, _ = layout.get_position_anchor(self.book_layout, self._book_view.scroll_y)
+        return bisect.bisect_right(self.book.chapter_start_block, block_index) - 1
+
+    def _jump_to_block(self, block_index: int) -> None:
+        y = layout.scroll_y_for_anchor(self.book_layout, block_index, 0.0)
+        self._book_view.scroll_to(y=y, animate=False, immediate=True)
+
+    def action_next_chapter(self) -> None:
+        if self.book is None:
+            return
+        chapter = self._current_chapter_index()
+        if chapter + 1 < len(self.book.chapter_start_block):
+            self._jump_to_block(self.book.chapter_start_block[chapter + 1])
+            self._save_progress()
+
+    def action_prev_chapter(self) -> None:
+        if self.book is None:
+            return
+        chapter = self._current_chapter_index()
+        if chapter > 0:
+            self._jump_to_block(self.book.chapter_start_block[chapter - 1])
+            self._save_progress()
+
+    def action_peek_footnote(self) -> None:
+        if self.book is None or not self.book_layout.heights:
+            return
+        current_block, _ = layout.get_position_anchor(self.book_layout, self._book_view.scroll_y)
+
+        forward = [(i, b) for i, b in enumerate(self.book.blocks) if i >= current_block and b.footnotes]
+        backward = [(i, b) for i, b in enumerate(self.book.blocks) if i < current_block and b.footnotes]
+        candidate = forward[0] if forward else (backward[-1] if backward else None)
+        if candidate is None:
+            self.notify("Keine Fußnote in diesem Buch gefunden.", timeout=3)
+            return
+
+        _, block = candidate
+        notes: list[str] = []
+        for ref in block.footnotes:
+            target_idx = self.book.footnote_targets.get(ref.target_id)
+            if target_idx is None:
+                continue
+            notes.append(self.book.blocks[target_idx].text)
+        if not notes:
+            self.notify("Fußnote konnte nicht aufgelöst werden.", timeout=3)
+            return
+        self.app.push_screen(FootnoteScreen(notes))
+
+    def action_back(self) -> None:
+        self.app.pop_screen()
diff --git a/tui/diora_tui/remote.py b/tui/diora_tui/remote.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..58ec00b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tui/diora_tui/remote.py
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+"""Fetch + decrypt books from a diora server into the local TUI library, and
+pull reading progress for them into the local progress store.
+
+Progress is pull-only here (server -> local); the reader pushes local ->
+server itself while a book is open (see reader_screen.py). Both directions
+use the same "blockIndex:innerFraction" anchor format as the web reader
+(diora_tui/blocks.py) and the same furthest-wins merge rule
+(diora_tui/progress.py, books/views.py's _progress_is_further) — a pull can
+only ever advance local progress, never regress it, unless forced.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import re
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import requests
+
+from . import api, crypto, library_meta
+from .config import RemoteConfig
+from .epub import _book_id
+from .progress import Position, save as save_progress
+
+
+class SyncError(Exception):
+    pass
+
+
+@dataclass
+class SyncResult:
+    downloaded: list[str] = field(default_factory=list)
+    unchanged: int = 0
+    skipped_pdf: list[str] = field(default_factory=list)
+    failed: list[str] = field(default_factory=list)
+    progress_pulled: int = 0
+
+
+def _sanitize_filename(name: str) -> str:
+    name = re.sub(r"[^\w\s.-]", "_", name).strip()
+    return (name or "buch")[:80]
+
+
+def _parse_meta(raw: bytes) -> dict:
+    return json.loads(raw.decode("utf-8"))
+
+
+def sync_library(library_dir: Path, cfg: RemoteConfig) -> SyncResult:
+    try:
+        snapshot = api.fetch_sync_snapshot(cfg.server_url, cfg.api_token)
+    except api.ApiError as e:
+        raise SyncError(str(e)) from e
+    except requests.RequestException as e:
+        raise SyncError(f"Verbindung zu {cfg.server_url} fehlgeschlagen: {e}") from e
+
+    library_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    result = SyncResult()
+    local_path_by_server_id: dict[int, Path] = {}
+
+    for book in snapshot.get("books", []):
+        book_id = book["id"]
+        try:
+            meta = _parse_meta(crypto.decrypt(cfg.enc_key_b64, book["meta_iv"], book["meta_ct"]))
+        except crypto.DecryptError:
+            result.failed.append(f"#{book_id}")
+            continue
+
+        if meta.get("type") == "pdf":
+            result.skipped_pdf.append(meta.get("title") or f"#{book_id}")
+            continue
+
+        existing = next(library_dir.glob(f"{book_id:04d} - *.epub"), None)
+        if existing is not None:
+            result.unchanged += 1
+            local_path_by_server_id[book_id] = existing
+            continue
+
+        try:
+            data = api.fetch_book_data(cfg.server_url, cfg.api_token, book_id)
+            raw = crypto.decrypt(cfg.enc_key_b64, data["data_iv"], data["data_ct"])
+        except (api.ApiError, crypto.DecryptError, requests.RequestException):
+            result.failed.append(meta.get("title") or f"#{book_id}")
+            continue
+
+        title = meta.get("title") or f"book-{book_id}"
+        dest = library_dir / f"{book_id:04d} - {_sanitize_filename(title)}.epub"
+        dest.write_bytes(raw)
+        result.downloaded.append(dest.name)
+        local_path_by_server_id[book_id] = dest
+
+    for entry in snapshot.get("book_progress", []):
+        anchor = entry.get("position_anchor") or ""
+        if not anchor:
+            continue  # PDF-only scroll_fraction progress — this TUI is EPUB-only
+        dest = local_path_by_server_id.get(entry.get("book_id"))
+        if dest is None:
+            continue
+        local_id = _book_id(dest)
+        if save_progress(local_id, Position(anchor=anchor)):
+            result.progress_pulled += 1
+
+    read_status = {
+        _book_id(path): bool(book.get("is_read"))
+        for book in snapshot.get("books", [])
+        if (path := local_path_by_server_id.get(book["id"])) is not None
+    }
+    library_meta.set_many(read_status)
+
+    return result
diff --git a/tui/diora_tui/statusbar.py b/tui/diora_tui/statusbar.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e38675a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tui/diora_tui/statusbar.py
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+"""Bottom status bar: battery level + current time, refreshed every second.
+Battery is read via psutil (cross-platform); on a desktop machine with no
+battery, psutil.sensors_battery() returns None and the bar just shows time.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from datetime import datetime
+
+from textual.widgets import Static
+
+try:
+    import psutil
+except ImportError:
+    psutil = None  # battery display degrades gracefully to time-only
+
+
+class StatusBar(Static):
+    def on_mount(self) -> None:
+        self._refresh()
+        self.set_interval(1.0, self._refresh)
+
+    def _refresh(self) -> None:
+        self.update(self._render_text())
+
+    def _render_text(self) -> str:
+        parts = []
+        battery = self._battery_text()
+        if battery:
+            parts.append(battery)
+        parts.append(datetime.now().strftime("%H:%M:%S"))
+        return "  ".join(parts)
+
+    def _battery_text(self) -> str | None:
+        if psutil is None:
+            return None
+        try:
+            battery = psutil.sensors_battery()
+        except Exception:
+            return None
+        if battery is None:
+            return None
+        state = "lädt" if battery.power_plugged else "Akku"
+        return f"{state} {round(battery.percent)}%"
diff --git a/tui/pyproject.toml b/tui/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..969d473
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tui/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+[project]
+name = "diora-tui"
+version = "0.1.0"
+description = "Terminal-EPUB-Reader für diora mit Server-Sync für Bücher und Lesefortschritt."
+requires-python = ">=3.9"
+dependencies = [
+    "textual>=0.60",
+    "ebooklib>=0.18",
+    "beautifulsoup4>=4.12",
+    "lxml>=5.0",
+    "platformdirs>=4.0",
+    "requests>=2.31",
+    "cryptography>=42.0",
+    "psutil>=5.9",
+]
+
+[project.scripts]
+diora-tui = "diora_tui.app:main"
+
+[build-system]
+requires = ["hatchling"]
+build-backend = "hatchling.build"
+
+[tool.hatch.build.targets.wheel]
+packages = ["diora_tui"]