[joeblau]

You're right, you definitely don't need a dedicated application, but I would rather just open up one executable instead of cobbling together multiple utilities. It's all about your workflow though, for me, I feel more comfortable using a M↓ where scrolling is synced and it can watch what I'm doing in real-time.

I'm gonna look into your setup though. I'm definitely all about being on the terminal, does your setup work well with VIM as well?

[JasonFruit]

Not really, since it relies on Emacs' docview mode, which can display the pages of a pdf file; I'm not aware of a way of doing that with vim. If I were doing it in the terminal, I'd probably use w3m in Emacs to roughly render the HTML. I don't know if that's possible in vim either, but it seems more likely.