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I'm assuming the original poster was talking about some sort of wired remote control. It's certainly possible with skillful soldering and ideally adding your own connector to the case for the controller.
But as it is, the reader lacks IR capabilities. The USB and dock connectors, as far as I know, don't allow for any kind of control. They just send the reader's software into "connect" mode. I don't think the reader has any kind of host mode in Linux that would allow the unit to power external peripherals via USB either. Even if that were the case, you'd have to have some sort of custom-programmed microcontroller to communicate the button presses to the operating system. That kind of feature is inelegant and unsightly at best, it's just technically more trouble than it's worth and definitely full of obstacles on the OS side.
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