Somebody on list did a program called Less with Bookmarks that does all this. No idea where hehe went or what became of the program.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sergei V. Fleytin" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 14:46:16 +0300 Subject: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY and continious reading of E-books > Hello, > > > > I remember this topic to be discussed many years ago, but, perhaps, there > are some news about which I have missed. > > > > I wonder if there is a way of convenient reading of e-text in Linux console. > I know that you can use editors VIM or Emacs, which both have read only mode > and ability to place bookmarks in the texts. But it would be nice if we had > a simple app with the following features: > > > > 1. Possibility of reading long texts with Braille device just by > pressing panning buttons without a need to go to the next or previous page > when we reach the bottom or top of screen. > 2. Ability to automatically save last reading position so that we could > easily resume reading of the last book. Ideally it would be great if we > could have it for a number of file we open with such utility. > 3. Ability to place bookmarks for the particular book so that we could > later go to the place we saved. > 4. Simple searching capability. > > Since BRLTTY has built in help capability which allows reading with panning > buttons I suspect that such an app may be possible. If there is no separate > solution, then maybe it would be possible to add this feature in BRLTTY > itself? > > > > > > Ñ óâàæåíèåì > > Ñåðãåé Ôëåéòèí > > > > With best regards > > Sergei Fleytin > > > > > _______________________________________________ > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] > For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty >
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