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Re: epub files and debian?



On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 08:02:43PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote:
> Le 23/08/2016 à 19:36, Karen Lewellen a écrit :
> > Hi folks,
> > is there a simple preferably command line tool in Debian that converts
> > epub into text?
> > Thanks,
> > Karen
> 
> Calibre (graphical reader) can convert books from epub to txt either one
> at a time or by lot.

Calibre builds command line executables; once installed, you can
do

ebook-convert source.format destination.format

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.

-dsr-


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