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Cows Look Like Maps@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader

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What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader

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Cows Look Like Maps@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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    IIRC it only suports plain text files / Markdown rn. Not supporting EPUB is a non-starter for me. I use my Kobo right now and love it. If they add EPUB support i will heavily consider building one.

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      Yeah it’s an interesting project, but it looks bad with the printed case and exposed tact switches, and seems to have little functionality.

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      The creator is working on an epub-to-text-file converter here:

      https://github.com/joeycastillo/libros-convert

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        Calibre already does this but cool we have options.

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        Epub to text is very easy and Pandoc can do it. I end up using lynx -dump because that’s faster though.

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          Technically, epub is basically a wepage and thus everything but easy.

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            You could just strip out the content with a big regex. Surely nothing could go wrong with ̴̬̮̳͔̬̹͖̩͍̄̈̓̀͋̀̎̊̈́̑͛͊̕t̶̘͇̺̠̗̓̿̆̓͋͗́͑͆̈́̈́͊̉̈̍̚ͅḥ̷̡̛͓̹͕̞͎̃͂̽͠ͅã̸͈̟̩̫̪̣̳̜̑̈́̓͗͘t̴̡̮̹͌́̄̔̂́̒͑͘.

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            You can unzip an epub and find out. Ive done it a couple of times to remove some images from books.

            unzip book.epub

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              Last time someone told me I could find out if I would just unzip it didn’t go so well…

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