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 > >>> > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>Speakup mailing list > >>>Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >>>http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >>> > >>>-- >This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and > >>>conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document > >>>Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at > >>>http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. > >>> > >>>This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by > >>>MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. > >>> > >>>Please consider the environment before printing this email. > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Speakup mailing list > >>Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >>http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > Well that's it then, colour me gone! > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
