Cows Look Like Maps@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoWhat Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Readeritsfoss.comexternal-linkmessage-square73fedilinkarrow-up1447arrow-down119
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minus-squaresolrize@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months agoEpub to text is very easy and Pandoc can do it. I end up using lynx -dump because that’s faster though.
minus-squareMonkderZweite@feddit.chlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-211 months agoTechnically, epub is basically a wepage and thus everything but easy.
minus-square Morphit @feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 months agoYou could just strip out the content with a big regex. Surely nothing could go wrong with ̴̬̮̳͔̬̹͖̩͍̄̈̓̀͋̀̎̊̈́̑͛͊̕t̶̘͇̺̠̗̓̿̆̓͋͗́͑͆̈́̈́͊̉̈̍̚ͅḥ̷̡̛͓̹͕̞͎̃͂̽͠ͅã̸͈̟̩̫̪̣̳̜̑̈́̓͗͘t̴̡̮̹͌́̄̔̂́̒͑͘.
minus-squaremesamune@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoYou can unzip an epub and find out. Ive done it a couple of times to remove some images from books. unzip book.epub
minus-squareJaymesRS@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoLast time someone told me I could find out if I would just unzip it didn’t go so well…
Epub to text is very easy and Pandoc can do it. I end up using lynx -dump because that’s faster though.
Technically, epub is basically a wepage and thus everything but easy.
You could just strip out the content with a big regex. Surely nothing could go wrong with ̴̬̮̳͔̬̹͖̩͍̄̈̓̀͋̀̎̊̈́̑͛͊̕t̶̘͇̺̠̗̓̿̆̓͋͗́͑͆̈́̈́͊̉̈̍̚ͅḥ̷̡̛͓̹͕̞͎̃͂̽͠ͅã̸͈̟̩̫̪̣̳̜̑̈́̓͗͘t̴̡̮̹͌́̄̔̂́̒͑͘.
You can unzip an epub and find out. Ive done it a couple of times to remove some images from books.
unzip book.epub
Last time someone told me I could find out if I would just unzip it didn’t go so well…
Okay but why