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dboreham on Oct 27, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Free Linear Algebra textbook

Reading this, I realized I need a browser-side PDF viewer that provides kindle-like features (bookmarks, current reading position, highlighting, ...) layered over a bare PDF file fetched from a server like this one. I'm guessing that thing exists somewhere?

ayewo on Oct 27, 2020 [–]

No affiliation whatsoever but you could try using Hypothesis’ browser-based annotation tool to take PDF notes: https://web.hypothes.is/

They build on top of Mozilla’s PDF.js:

https://github.com/hypothesis/pdf.js-hypothes.is

https://web.hypothes.is/help/annotating-locally-saved-pdfs/

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