OT: command line epub reader?

[Kirk Reiser]

Hi Al: Just personal preference. I often put my txt files on my old
bookport. I use a utility called ubt to massage the files into indexed
versions the bookport can deal with and it seems to like 80 characters
best. On my computers I have my consoles all set to 160 by 64 lines so
80 characters work just fine on the computers as well.


On Mon, 5 Oct 2015, Al Sten-Clanton wrote:

> 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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