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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