Ebook Reading

Great tip! I did not realise that Evince could do that. Live and learn.

Perhaps this could be scripted so that you could just drop your current PDF file into a directory? Then you would not have to manually edit your Openbox menu item each time you changed books. I wrote a quick shell script which could do the job: http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/63 - it is not the best script in the world, but it does the job. Please feel free to improve, if you like.

Oops, good catch! I forgot to quote the $file variable. The following revision should now handle file names with spaces:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/64

I have done a bit more work on the script and it now includes the option to run as a pipemenu. By using the "--pipemenu" argument it should build a menu for each PDF file located within the directory set at the top of the script. The pipemenu can be added to Openbox's main menu with an entry such as:

<menu execute="current-pdf.sh --pipemenu" id="ebooksmenu" label="Ebooks"/>

The new version can be found at: http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/66

Again, it is not the best script ever written, so please feel free to improve as you see fit.

Really, thank you Philip.

I never expected you to do all this work. Of course, you got all the fun and glory also.

I'm getting a little collection of pipemenus. Seems fodder for a blog post.