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minus-squareIsoprenoid@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down4·11 months agoThe creator is working on an epub-to-text-file converter here: https://github.com/joeycastillo/libros-convert
minus-squaremesamune@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 months agoCalibre already does this but cool we have options.
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-squareJaymesRSlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoLast time someone told me I could find out if I would just unzip it didn’t go so well…
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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