OT: command line epub reader?

[Al Sten-Clanton]

Thanks!

Al

On 10/5/2015 10:59 AM, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> 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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