Open Reader at a specific bookmark

I am trying to figure out a way to open the adobe reader at a specific bookmark. I found that it is possible to open to a specific page:
/A page=10
and to a named destination:
/A nameddest=Some destination
Is there a command line argument to open reader at a specific bookmark?
Thanks.

I don't understand why you say it makes no sense. Why would you not want to
mark where you stopped reading in a PDF file so you can close it and, later,
open it again to where you left off so you don't have to spend time figuring
out where you were? This is kind of basic for reading books.
I suppose if you only read short PDF's or just glance through them then it
would make no sense. But when you're doing research and going back and forth
between several PDF files, it makes a lot of sense.
Page numbers have to be jotted down somewhere or remembered. It would be
much handier to put the cursor on the spot you stopped reading and click on
a button such as "Bookmark" or "Stopped Reading Here."
I found no mention of "named destinations" in the Reader 8 help file, or am
I being too literal? Is it called something else? Are these named
destinations configurable by the end user or only the person who creates the
file? If the end user, are they saved when the file is closed? In other
words, can I, as the end user, mark my own persistent named destinations?

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