[BRLTTY] BRLTTY and continious reading of E-books

[Rob Hudson]

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.

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From: "Sergei V. Fleytin" <fleytin at yandex.ru>
To: <brltty at brltty.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 14:46:16 +0300
Subject: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY and continious reading of E-books

> Hello,
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> I remember this topic to be discussed many years ago, but, perhaps, there
> are some news about which I have missed.
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> 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:
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> 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?
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> Ñ óâàæåíèåì
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> Ñåðãåé Ôëåéòèí
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> With best regards
> 
> Sergei Fleytin
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