OT: command line epub reader?

[Willem van der Walt]

Again, the cainteoir command-line application needs verry little work to 
turn it into a very usable epub3 reader.  Some one with some c++ expertees 
and some time to spend on it is what is needed.
Kind regards, Willem


On Mon, 19 Oct 2015, Tom Fowle wrote:

> 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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