FEATURE REQUEST: Allow PDF export of highlighted text

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This may be a narrow use case, but just throwing this out there.

I’d love it if, during or after I’ve finished a text in Readlang, I could export my marked up text as PDF to review it. When I mark up a physical novel, I like going back to the start and scanning the notes I made on the page to see how much I remember. Sometimes, I even read the same novel twice (maybe a year apart), and I like to see what words I didn’t know on the first pass that I know by heart now. It’s really encouraging.

I know I can go back to the beginning of the file on Readlang once I’ve reached the end, but it takes a lot of clicking to scan through an 80,000-word novel, or even a 2,000-word article. Scrolling through a PDF would be much faster, and would allow for adding new handwritten notes or highlights.

Again, this might be a niche request, but being able to export marked up texts as PDF for further study would be an amazing help. I still pick up my annotated paperbacks around the house to refresh my memory, and would love to be able to easily do the same with the digital versions I’m annotating in Readlang.

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To what extent would your request be solved by improved navigation in the reading interface?

My Kindle can do these things that I think Readlang can’t:

  • go to a given page number and/or a given percentage of the text (this solves coming all the way back/forward)
  • making bookmarks and notes; listing them and going to the location of the one you select
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Making the interface a little more Kindle-like would be nice (especially highlights and bookmarking), but what neither Readlang nor Kindle can provide is a smooth scrolling experience rather than waiting for individual pages to load.

That’s a little beside the point, though. What I’d like to be able to export is a single file of any particular text that shows my highlights (and maybe translations) that I can scroll through easily in PDF format. I already export my cards to Anki with context sentences, but for me, re-reading and/or skimming is really valuable, and a PDF is the smoothest format for that.