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Darazaki / Spedread

GTK speed reading software: Read like a speedrunner!
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Use of text files as input #2

Open gary-host-laptop opened 2 years ago

gary-host-laptop commented 2 years ago

It would be super nice if one could open a text file through Spedread (.epub, .pdf, .html, etc), and that it lets you read it that way, instead of, for example, having to copy chapter after chapter in order to read it.

gary-host-laptop commented 2 years ago

I know this is in early stages and you're working on the rewrite and after that maybe on the distribution via flatpak, but just wanted to have an issue open for whenever, if ever, this can be achieved.

Darazaki commented 2 years ago

I like this idea a lot! Things like PDFs might be a bit too difficult since it can be a pain to only extract the right content from them but EPUB and HTML are definitely doable!

I don't think this feature should be implemented alone though: if we're talking about reading long texts there should definitely be a way to remember the last position and ideally a chapter/page system where Spedread could break a text into smaller chunks

All that would require a lot of changes so that'd definitely be a v3 or v4 thing

Very cool idea though, thanks! :D

deadpahn commented 1 year ago

Just discovered this tool. If you select all from the PDF and past into the window that works but native pdf support would be awesome WITH some sort of bookmarking system so I can take a break and go back to it later.