Oddbean new post about login | logout I’ve been using Calibre to convert epubs and pdfs without images to .txt, and reading them in less. you can search for any string with / and in less, the v key opens $EDITOR, and you can add a —bkm to search for next time you’re reading, or add “margin notes” in [[ ]] brackets.
I have Calibre on my laptop. Less can do margin notes??? I should make more use of margin notes. How does it save them? I use Pandoc for a lot of conversions. And no matter what I use, converted PDFs still have glitches - dropped paragraph initial letters, random spaces, tables turned to mush...
I mean YOU add margin notes. You come up with your own system. For me, I’ll add a (1) in the text of a paragraph, then beneath the paragraph in double brackets I’ll write a note. And when it’s in .txt, all the Unix tools like awk, sed, cat, etc, work.
Fair enough! Yes I do that, but thought there might be something integrated and fancy!