Re: epub files and debian?

[Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> wrote:

Hi,
Let me be sure I understand you.
If I have a file with the extension epub I can treat it as a zip file finding an html file inside?
or do I need to save the file as a zip  one first?
Thanks,
Karen

[It doesn't bother me, but top posting is frowned on on this list.]

You might want to rename with a .zip extension. The command line tool, unzip, used to require a zip extension.

Patrick

 

On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, Nicolas George wrote:

Le septidi 7 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Karen Lewellen a écrit :

is there a simple preferably command line tool in Debian that converts epub
into text?

EPUB files are just Zip files containing a few standardized text file and
the bulk of the text as HTML. Use unzip or any other archive manager to
extract them and then do what you want with the HTML.

For conversions with more exotic e-books formats, see the calibre package.

Regards,

--
 Nicolas George