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| author | Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me> | 2022-02-06 21:25:01 +1100 |
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| committer | Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me> | 2022-02-06 21:25:01 +1100 |
| commit | 2c422ce0a29154964cbb5011182711b1570541f9 (patch) | |
| tree | bf363dcf1271ab7b2a36a34e2ca459f62b2849a0 /microposts/nov-el.org | |
| parent | 292bab155170594932cc397683ba228fbc9791b9 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/microposts/nov-el.org b/microposts/nov-el.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..037dffc --- /dev/null +++ b/microposts/nov-el.org @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +#+title: Reading EPUB in Emacs +#+date: <2022-02-03> + +[[https://depp.brause.cc/nov.el/][nov.el]] is pretty handy as an EPUB reader in Emacs. Before that I was +using the calibre reader, which is slow and resource hungry. + +Emacs integration also means you get the following for free: + +1. Use [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Follow-Mode.html][follow-mode]] to allow double- or triple-page display. Note that + you may need to remove the header line for the text continuation to + be correct. +2. Annotation can be done with org-capture, which can easily get the + selected text and link to the EPUB with the correct position. + +One feature that I am sorely missing from calibre reader is fulltext +search, which is [[https://depp.brause.cc/nov.el/TODO.org][an item in the todo list of the project]]. + +Another feature would be an equivalent to Info-index, which could +allow jumping to any section in the book, with completion. + + |