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)