Re: Software suggestion: reading Guttenberg plaintext ebooks
> I may inadvertently start a flamewar, but Emacs has wonderful
> bookmarking support. ``C-x r m`` to bookmark any *line* in any
> readable file (including PDFs, as of Emacs 23) and ``C-x r l`` to list
> all your saved bookmarks. I use it for reading just about everything
> and am currently making my way through the Dargonzine archives this
> way.
>
VIM does, too, and I am at least familiar enough with it to use it as
a book reader. It's actually pretty good!
> Of course, it falls down pretty badly in the UI department, they're
> determined to do everything their ("the Emacs") way, and that takes
> some getting used to.
>
I hear Emacs has a fairly decent text editor in there, no?
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