this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2024
8 points (100.0% liked)

Books

4533 readers
42 users here now

A community for all things related to Books.

Rules

  1. Be Nice

Official Bingo Posts:

Related Communities

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
dresden@discuss.online
dresden_do@lemmy.world
JaymesRS
8
Is there an e-reader that would allow you to edit an .epub file? (fedia.io)
submitted 1 month ago by classic@fedia.io to c/books@lemmy.world
4 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Beyond just marking up an e-book, are there any devices that would also allow you to edit the file itself?

top 4 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] dbx12@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I doubt there is one since that would feel rather clumsy. If it is about editing the epub in general, you might like calibre. It is open source software intended for library management but comes with an epub editor.

[–] classic@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you. Yeah, I like to whittle down the text to the essential points as I read (this is with non-fiction). On an ipad, i open up the book in OnlyOffice to do this.

If I markup up the book instead (highlights, underlining and so forth), what happens to all of that when you open the book up in Calibre? Does it show the markups?

[–] dbx12@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

I think it depends on the eReader, but mine creates a txt file with all highlighted sections. I assume others behave similarly and store annotations outside the actual epub file.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

If there are Android apps that do so, you can use an Android reader. I know you can edit PDFs, not sure about epubs.