# serial

> a book serializer

this is the worst thingie i can imagine that sends you an email at a scheduled
interval containing a snippet of a book, length of your choosing.

## requirements

- recutils
- awk
- postfix: configuring postfix (or some other mail transfer agent) is up to you!
  i successfully did it after a lot of trial and error. see: `/doc/postfix.txt`
- jq
- fzf (optional)
- just (optional)

## usage

1.  update the recepient's email address in `justfile`

2.  put plain text ebooks in `/src`.
    (check out https://www.gutenberg.org/)

3.  create a new entry for each new book in `config.rec`
    (see `config.rec` for details)

4.  either run `just process` every day, or set up a cron job to run it
    (https://crontab.guru/#12_*_*_*_*)

## details

All variables and values mentioned below exist in each record of `config.rec`

1.  Iterate over the records in config.rec. If today is not present in `delivery`, continue.

2.  Iterate over paragraphs (sep = '\n\n') starting with paragraph number
    `progress` and ending when the running word count exceeds `WPM * minutes`.

3.  Pipe those paragraphs to postfix mail

4.  Increment `iter` and update `progress` to be the final paragraph number (plus one)