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What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader (itsfoss.com)
submitted 11 months ago by CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The creator is working on an epub-to-text-file converter here:

https://github.com/joeycastillo/libros-convert

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Calibre already does this but cool we have options.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Epub to text is very easy and Pandoc can do it. I end up using lynx -dump because that's faster though.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Technically, epub is basically a wepage and thus everything but easy.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can unzip an epub and find out. Ive done it a couple of times to remove some images from books.

unzip book.epub

[–] JaymesRS 1 points 11 months ago

Last time someone told me I could find out if I would just unzip it didn’t go so well…