Thanks for the reminder about voice dream reader, when I get my slugish self up to speed on my iPhone, I'll get it. Thanks tom fowle On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 02:47:48AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
