Track recent books for neovim

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+books_directory="$HOME/documents/books"
+recent_books_file="$HOME/.config/nvim/tmp/recent_books.txt"
+
+inotifywait -m -e CREATE -e OPEN -r "$books_directory" |
+while read -r path action file; do
+    if [[ $file == *.pdf ]]; then
+        echo "$path/$file" >>"$recent_books_file"
+        # Remove duplicates and overwrite the recent_books_file
+        sort -u -o "$recent_books_file" "$recent_books_file"
+    fi
+done