OT: command line epub reader?

[Kirk Reiser]

Yes, I use ebook-convert as well. It does a pretty nice job of
converting most formats like epub, rtf, mobi, etc, to txt files. At
least, that's the file format I like best. Here is a tiny script I use
when converting.


#!/bin/bash

base=`basename -s .epub "$1"`
ebook-convert "$1" "$base".txt --linearize-tables --unsmarten-punctuation --insert-blank-line --asciiize --disable-dehyphenate --max-line-length=80


On Mon, 5 Oct 2015, Willem van der Walt wrote:

> Hi,
> There is ebook-speaker by Jos Lemens which would read some epub books 
> directly.
> The way I would prefer at the moment, is to install calibre and use its 
> command-line program called ebook-convert to convert the epub into some 
> format you like, like .txt or html.
> Then there is the cainteoir program which do read epub, but the player is 
> currently more of a demonstrator of the functionallity of the cainteoir 
> library than a player that  one would use on a daily basis.
> Cainteoir can be used to extract the text from epub as well.
> HTH, Willem
>
>
> On Sun, 4 Oct 2015, Tom Fowle wrote:
>
>> Hi folks
>> Is there a command line reader for .epub books?Did a net search and didn't
>> find anything promising but maybe missed something great?
>> thanks
>> tom Fowle
>> 
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