On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote:
> Hi, > Let me be sure I understand you. > If I have a file with the extension epub I can treat it as a zip file > finding an html file inside? > or do I need to save the file as a zip one first? > Thanks, > Karen > > [It doesn't bother me, but top posting is frowned on on this list.] You might want to rename with a .zip extension. The command line tool, unzip, used to require a zip extension. Patrick > > On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, Nicolas George wrote: > > Le septidi 7 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Karen Lewellen a écrit : >> >>> is there a simple preferably command line tool in Debian that converts >>> epub >>> into text? >>> >> >> EPUB files are just Zip files containing a few standardized text file and >> the bulk of the text as HTML. Use unzip or any other archive manager to >> extract them and then do what you want with the HTML. >> >> For conversions with more exotic e-books formats, see the calibre package. >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Nicolas George >> >
