No one has the source code to readit for starters. Several years ago, I started on a visual basic implementation of readit for windows. It actually started coming a pretty long ways but... I then saw the light and came over to linux and more or less abbandoned windows development alltogether. I never really felt that big a need for a readit program under linux but if there is that much interest, perhaps I'll look into doing something about it. I think the biggest thing about readit was a continuous read-to-end feature and bookmarks - each for separate files. It also had a directory/file manager but you can do that now with dired under emacs. See, if I use dired and use bookmarks for emacs, I have just about everything readit had except for reading continuously and possibley some more advanced search capability. What's this about reading DAISY for reading under linux? I just signed up for bookshare and All I'm aware of is having to dump the file into an HTML format with no navigable links. For a guy who loves his hyper text, this doesn't work so well. On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 06:33:43AM -0400, Ann Parsons wrote: > Hi all, > > What we need is a Readit for Linux! We need something that will > scroll through a file, and stop when and where you tell it, and be > able to retrieve that place. Now, if this is possible in DAISY books > which are supposed to work in Linux, then it ought to be possible to > code this. I wish I were a programmer, then I would do it myself. I > don't understand why Readit can't be ported to Linux! > > Ann P. > > -- > Ann K. Parsons > email: akp at eznet.net ICQ Number: 33006854 > WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp > "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Make sure your E-mail can be read by everyone! http://www.betips.net/etc/evilmail.html
