Re: ebook formats

2024-05-06 Thread Brad Snyder
Have you tried opening the file, using CMD + O (or CMD + Down Arrow.) - Brad - On May 6, 2024, at 18:26, Lorie McCloud wrote: how would you go about unzipping an epub book? > On May 6, 2024, at 5:33 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > > EPUB are essentially zip archive files that very much shoul

Re: ebook formats

2024-05-06 Thread Nebojsa Tasic
There are online converters from epub to txt. On 5/7/2024 12:18 AM, Lorie McCloud wrote: I bought an e-book hoping for a pdf but that’snot what I got. there were things like Sony Reader, Nook Mobi and epub. it also includes Apple Preview. can anybody tell me what that is? I’ve never heard of

Re: ebook formats

2024-05-06 Thread Lorie McCloud
how would you go about unzipping an epub book? > On May 6, 2024, at 5:33 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > > EPUB are essentially zip archive files that very much should resemble Daisy > books once they have been unzipped. Generally the text content of the book > available will be in HTML or XML w

Re: ebook formats

2024-05-06 Thread Lorie McCloud
well, I’ll try that. > On May 6, 2024, at 5:46 PM, Brad Snyder wrote: > > I think your best option would be to share the ePub book with the books app > on your Mac. > > - Brad - > > > > On May 6, 2024, at 17:18, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > I bought an e-book hoping for a pdf but that’snot w

Re: ebook formats

2024-05-06 Thread Brad Snyder
I think your best option would be to share the ePub book with the books app on your Mac. - Brad - On May 6, 2024, at 17:18, Lorie McCloud wrote: I bought an e-book hoping for a pdf but that’snot what I got. there were things like Sony Reader, Nook Mobi and epub. it also includes Apple Prev

Re: ebook formats

2024-05-06 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
EPUB are essentially zip archive files that very much should resemble Daisy books once they have been unzipped. Generally the text content of the book available will be in HTML or XML with HTML like tax. they can also include audio portions and files to synchronize the text with the audio. Sent

ebook formats

2024-05-06 Thread Lorie McCloud
I bought an e-book hoping for a pdf but that’snot what I got. there were things like Sony Reader, Nook Mobi and epub. it also includes Apple Preview. can anybody tell me what that is? I’ve never heard of it before. it also includes i-books which I haven’t had much experience with. if I wanted to

Re: how to convert unprotected epubs/other ebook formats to txt?

2014-02-02 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
gt;>> not satisfactory in accessibility because you need sighted support to >>>> install. But after that, you'll be able to convert from a terminal. >>>> Calibre needs to be installed and the command line tools need installing. >>>> After that a simple command l

Re: how to convert unprotected epubs/other ebook formats to txt?

2014-01-31 Thread Georgina Joyce
a simple command line command will convert your books. >>> >>> HTH >>> >>> Gena >>> >>> On 24 Jan 2014, at 17:13, Anouk Radix wrote: >>> >>>> Hello everyone,, >>>> I am not a particularly big fan of ibooks on the

Re: how to convert unprotected epubs/other ebook formats to txt?

2014-01-31 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
terminal. Calibre needs to >> be installed and the command line tools need installing. After that a simple >> command line command will convert your books. >> >> HTH >> >> Gena >> >> On 24 Jan 2014, at 17:13, Anouk Radix wrote: >> >>>

Re: how to convert unprotected epubs/other ebook formats to txt?

2014-01-31 Thread Georgina Joyce
command will convert your books. >> >> HTH >> >> Gena >> >> On 24 Jan 2014, at 17:13, Anouk Radix wrote: >> >>> Hello everyone,, >>> I am not a particularly big fan of ibooks on the mac. In the past i used >>> stanza t

Re: how to convert unprotected epubs/other ebook formats to txt?

2014-01-31 Thread Keith Watson
t; > HTH > > Gena > > On 24 Jan 2014, at 17:13, Anouk Radix wrote: > >> Hello everyone,, >> I am not a particularly big fan of ibooks on the mac. In the past i used >> stanza to convert epubs and other ebook formats to txtfiles. Under mavericks >> stanza

Re: how to convert unprotected epubs/other ebook formats to txt?

2014-01-27 Thread Georgina Joyce
. After that a simple command line command will convert your books. HTH Gena On 24 Jan 2014, at 17:13, Anouk Radix wrote: > Hello everyone,, > I am not a particularly big fan of ibooks on the mac. In the past i used > stanza to convert epubs and other ebook formats to txtfiles. Under

how to convert unprotected epubs/other ebook formats to txt?

2014-01-24 Thread Anouk Radix
Hello everyone,, I am not a particularly big fan of ibooks on the mac. In the past i used stanza to convert epubs and other ebook formats to txtfiles. Under mavericks stanza does not seem to work for me anymore though, i get the message that the archive is damaged. Are there any other