[BRLTTY] How doyou read books?

John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
Sun Mar 4 14:44:35 EST 2018


For emacs, there is a whole customization for saving places, as well
as bookmarks.  It saves your whole desktop including places in all
your buffers.  To put in read only mode its c-x-q. or to visit a file
in read only mode its c-x-r.

On Sun, 04 Mar 2018 14:22:35 -0500,
Devin Prater wrote:
> 
> [1  <multipart/alternative (7bit)>]
> [1.1  <text/plain; utf-8 (quoted-printable)>]
> [1.2  <multipart/related (7bit)>]
> [1.2.1  <text/html; utf-8 (quoted-printable)>]
> John, how do you have Emacs remember your place in a book? Do you use EWW or something else, or just have it in a text file, converted with Pandoc or something? I’m assuming you put the file in read only mode, I forget how this is done
> but know its possible, and simply do space or C-v to scroll the window?
> Devin Prater
> Assistive Technology Instructor
> *
> , Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, and Powerpoint instructor certified by World Services for the Blind 
> 
>  On Mar 4, 2018, at 12:39 PM, Shérab <Sebastien.Hinderer at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> 
>  Thanks a lot for your feedback, John!
> 
>  So, when you get a book in HTML or epub or whatever, you convert it to
>  text?
> 
>  Best wishes,
> 
>  Shérab.
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