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minus-squareBoneALisa@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up148·1 year agoIIRC 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.
minus-squareSynthead@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoYeah it’s an interesting project, but it looks bad with the printed case and exposed tact switches, and seems to have little functionality.
minus-squareIsoprenoid@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down4·1 year agoThe creator is working on an epub-to-text-file converter here: https://github.com/joeycastillo/libros-convert
minus-squaremesamune@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoCalibre already does this but cool we have options.
minus-squaresolrize@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year 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-21 year agoTechnically, epub is basically a wepage and thus everything but easy.
minus-square Morphit @feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoYou could just strip out the content with a big regex. Surely nothing could go wrong with ̴̬̮̳͔̬̹͖̩͍̄̈̓̀͋̀̎̊̈́̑͛͊̕t̶̘͇̺̠̗̓̿̆̓͋͗́͑͆̈́̈́͊̉̈̍̚ͅḥ̷̡̛͓̹͕̞͎̃͂̽͠ͅã̸͈̟̩̫̪̣̳̜̑̈́̓͗͘t̴̡̮̹͌́̄̔̂́̒͑͘.
minus-squaremesamune@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year 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-squareJaymesRSlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoLast time someone told me I could find out if I would just unzip it didn’t go so well…
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.
Yeah it’s an interesting project, but it looks bad with the printed case and exposed tact switches, and seems to have little functionality.
The creator is working on an epub-to-text-file converter here:
https://github.com/joeycastillo/libros-convert
Calibre already does this but cool we have options.
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.epubLast time someone told me I could find out if I would just unzip it didn’t go so well…
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