OT: command line epub reader?

[Al Sten-Clanton]

Kirk, is using --max-line-length=80 a matter of personal preference of 
line length or is there more to it?  Thanks!

Al



On 10/5/2015 8:22 AM, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> 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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