OT: command line epub reader?

[Tom Fowle]

Thanks for the reminder about voice dream reader, when I get my slugish self
up to speed on my iPhone, I'll get it.
Thanks
tom fowle

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 02:47:48AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Personally I love having the rich navigation offered by most epub
> readers. I would much rather not convert to plain text files. I'm not
> aware of any Linux readers that can read epubs directly and be
> accessible too. What I end up doing most times is just take the epub
> books and read them with Voice Dream reader on my iOS devices but that
> ain't Linux:).
> 
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 10:51:17PM -0400, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> > 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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