OT: command line epub reader?

[Kirk Reiser]

Well, that really depends more on how the original document was set up
than the conversion. The ebook-convert script has options to keep or
throwaway any type of formatting the document contains. There's no
reason a text file can't contain any information you wish to keep.


On Mon, 5 Oct 2015, Tom Fowle wrote:

> Willem and Kirk,
> thanks both will check out these possibilities.
>
> Possible disadvantage of text is you probably loose markup if any E.G. pages
> chapters etc.  Maybe html in some cases.
> TNX&73
> tom Fowle WA6ivg
>
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 07:25:07AM +0200, 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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