That just give me an error on input/output files however though
On 20/09/2020 14:32, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
Try this
ebook-convert file.mobi file.txt --linearize-tables --asciize
See if that fixes your problem.
Rob
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From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 14:07:24 +0100
Subject: Re: ebook-speaker/UTF-8 long files
Tim, it's ebook-convert from the Calibre package, and yes they are .mobi
format originally, and given I've not found a way to natively read them
on Linux with Orca, I figured okay, I'll convert them. They do display
fine in Pluma however and I can read them that way, but I'd like the
convenience of ebook-speaker really.
On 20/09/2020 13:30, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
Tim here. You say "It tells me to wait", but it's hard to tell
whether it's "ebook-converr" or "ebook-speaker" that's giving the
error. So it's hard to tell whether it's source lines in the
original ebook that are giving trouble (in which case it would help
to know which type of ebook: EPUB, Mobi, etc), or the .txt output.
If it's the former, it sounds like an issue with "ebook-converr"
which I'm not sure I know how to deal with other than to try a
different program. If it's successfully producing .txt files but
they have long lines that choke "ebook-speaker", you might be able to
use `fmt` or `fold` to re-wrap the lines in the .txt so that they're
shorter and hopefully don't choke "ebook-speaker".
-tim
On September 20, 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
So I just ran into this and was wondering if anyone else has. I've
converted ebooks to .txt with ebook-converr and wanted to run them
by ebook-speaker. It tells me to wait since it's a UTF-8 file with
long phrases and give sme numbers, then does....precisely nothing,
boots me back to the terminal with a bell sound...
Any ideas?
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