Re: epub files and debian?

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> writes:

> Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:
>
> > Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> writes:
> >
> >> However, you probably don't need to go that far. EPUB is HTML
> >> in a ZIP file. Unzip it, then deal with HTML as you wish.
> >
> > Many EPub files that I find, don't open correctly in Evince (the default
> > Gnome document viewer). Are there various formats that call themselves
> > EPub?
>
> evince cannot handle epub (application/epub+zip).

Okay. How is that different from the format described above: “EPub is
HTML in a Zip file”? That's what I would expect as
“application/epub+zip”.

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