Allow reading of plain text

[sfacets]

The bookmarklet currently doesn't allow for this. Even better would be able to read epub and mobi formats

[vladholubiev]

I think @sfacets talks about ability to read text from content-editable textboxes. I vote for this feature too.

[chillingtouch]

Yeah, please add this feature :8ball:

[cameron]

do you mean you can't read a txt file with it? if so, that's because a txt file can't run javascript, and the bookmarklet is javascript. it's possible the content extraction code is overcomplicated and fails to grab body text if that's all there is.

w/r/t epub and mobi, i don't read those often, so can you tell me how you read them? is it in a browser? in an app?

[vladholubiev]

I don't think that somebody often read epub in browser, don't bother with this. Instead you may pay attention to blocks. Every time I try to read selected text frim it Squirt says that it is too hard to read. I often face with this while editing documents in Google Drive and articles in Wikipedia. In the first case it displays the text that my browser doesn;t support Javascript and in second - That this page is too hard to read. I also had problems with this online-notepad, it displays a rubbish such as JS code related to Google Analytics. </p> </div> </div> <div class="comment"> <div class="user"> <a rel="noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://github.com/cameron"><img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/149910?v=4" />cameron</a> commented <strong> 10 years ago</strong> </div> <div class="markdown-body"> <p>What browser?</p> </div> </div> <div class="comment"> <div class="user"> <a rel="noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://github.com/chillingtouch"><img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6910371?v=4" />chillingtouch</a> commented <strong> 10 years ago</strong> </div> <div class="markdown-body"> <p>Selected text reading doesnt work on FF Nightly 31, under Linux</p> </div> </div> <div class="comment"> <div class="user"> <a rel="noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://github.com/sfacets"><img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1860054?v=4" />sfacets</a> commented <strong> 10 years ago</strong> </div> <div class="markdown-body"> <p>Wouldn't the JavaScript be run externally from the text file when using the bookmarklet? For instance, if I were to open a plain text document in the browser, the bookmarklet doesn't work.</p> <p>epub is an open standard, and is basically just a zipped collection of xml/html files mobi is similar, not sure of how it is put together</p> <p>They can be read i the browser through a plugin, or on ebook apps such as Calibre, or the Kindle app.</p> </div> </div> <div class="comment"> <div class="user"> <a rel="noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://github.com/vladholubiev"><img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3817380?v=4" />vladholubiev</a> commented <strong> 10 years ago</strong> </div> <div class="markdown-body"> <p>@cameron latest 33d Chrome, Win8.1</p> </div> </div> <div class="comment"> <div class="user"> <a rel="noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://github.com/kristoffernolgren"><img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/485125?v=4" />kristoffernolgren</a> commented <strong> 10 years ago</strong> </div> <div class="markdown-body"> <p>A solution for this would be a page on squirt.io that you can paste text into and squirt, this would also work for PDF:s, which is common, specially for students.</p> </div> </div> <div class="comment"> <div class="user"> <a rel="noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://github.com/evanwolf"><img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/205622?v=4" />evanwolf</a> commented <strong> 10 years ago</strong> </div> <div class="markdown-body"> <p>Part of the case for reading ebooks: a gazillion sold/read every day; lots of material only available in book form; they are 10x to 200x longer than most web articles, so readers benefit from RSVP even more; fiction and narrative books (like biographies) are perfect for high speed linear reading. </p> <p>About ebook formats. epub, mobi are often read in native app readers. for instance, Amazon's Kindle mobile and desktop apps read .mobi files. Calibre (github: <a href="https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre">https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre</a>) is a popular FOSS desktop ebook client that reads/converts all these ebook files; about 3.5 million active users. </p> <p>You already parse html to find the relevant text. For ebooks, I'd want the addition of a few book-specific features: </p> <ul> <li>Navigate within the book using table of contents links. ToC is usually provided, along with anchor links.</li> <li>Remember last place in book read. Book reading is often interrupted.</li> <li>Multiple progress bars: % of section/chapter/book </li> </ul> <p>Thanks. </p> <ul> <li>Phil</li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="page-bar-simple"> </div> <div class="footer"> <ul class="body"> <li>© <script> document.write(new Date().getFullYear()) </script> Githubissues.</li> <li>Githubissues is a development platform for aggregating issues.</li> </ul> </div> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/jquery@3.5.1/dist/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src="/githubissues/assets/js.js"></script> <script src="/githubissues/assets/markdown.js"></script> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/highlightjs/cdn-release@11.4.0/build/highlight.min.js"></script> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/highlightjs/cdn-release@11.4.0/build/languages/go.min.js"></script> <script> hljs.highlightAll(); </script> </body> </html>