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Questions tagged [ebooks]

E-Books are books released in digital formats such as PDF and CHM.

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Downloading a .epub from a .acsm

I want to transfer books I buy on Google Play (downloads a .acsm) to my Kobo reader device. Everything I can find on internet about it: has you running Adobe Digital Editions aims at removing the DRM I want to avoid both: I'm fine with the DRM as…
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How to convert pdf to eBook format

Is there a way to convert a PDF document into an eBook format such as epub, azw or mobi? I am looking for an application, which is fast in conversion. I have just tried calibre. After 10 minutes not even 2% of the conversion have been reached. So…
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How can I highlight text in Calibre?

according to a 4 year-old forum entry at Calibre, they started working on the feature of being able to highlight text, 4 years ago. Does anyone know how if it is implemented yet and how to use it?
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Convert pdf file to epub

Is to possible to convert pdf file to epub format without errors? Is there some application in Linux that can do it? I found only Ecub and Calibre which give bad results or fail. A command-line application is sufficient. It's an ordinary pdf (not…
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Recommendation for an eBook reader for Gnome

There are eBook readers for Android, there's Okular for KDE, and stuff like that, but what I want, is an eBook (ePub format) reader for my normal Linux desktop. I know there's Calibre, which goes way beyond being just an eBook reader, and theres…
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Safely handling PDFs and other ebook formats on Linux

I'm running Arch Linux and using Okular for opening PDF files and FBReader for other ebook formats (Epub, Mobi, etc.). Simply put, here's my question: Assuming some of those documents come from unreliable sources and contain malicious code what can…
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Uploading ebook files to a Kobo Aura One

https://www.kobo.com/desktop offers a software to handle ebook collections and upload it to Kobo ebook readers. Unfortunately, it works only on Windows and Mac. I am thinking on buying a Kobo ebook reader but it is not clear whether I can use Linux…
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Extract TOC of epub file

Lately I hit the command that will print the TOC of a pdf file. mutool show file.pdf outline I'd like to use a command for the epub format with similar simplicity of usage and nice result as the above for pdf format. Is there something like that?
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Lightweight PDF to mobi and epub converter for Ubuntu

By lightweight I mean NOT Calibre. Please. I do not need a cataloging/library management software- which would not only consume unnecessary disk space but also ignore my current cataloging which I have maintained for years. I just need a quick and…
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.lit reader for Linux

Is there any reader for ebooks in .lit format for Linux? Or is there one for Windows that I can run on my Linux with Wine? Distro: openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 and Linux Mint 12 x86_64
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How to Wget with Subset Condition + generate CHM/... e-book?

I want to generate a CHM/... e-book by wgetting with a subset condition: download a subset of data recursively in the website that is within HTML class .container for a CHM book. Pseudocode wget recursively all links of chapters # TODO returns…
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How to extract table of contents from fb2 book?

I have a book in fb2 format. I want to print the table of contents, containing names and numbers of "parts", "chapters", "episodes" and so on. Is there a way I can do this from terminal? There is a similar question, but for epub format. I know fb2…
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Calibre (E book management) problem on Elementary OS Luna

I have had Calibre installed for some time now and it has always worked fine. Right now I tried to send a book from the Calibre library to my Kindle and I keep getting this message: calibre, version 0.8.38 ERROR: Error: Error communicating with…
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How to use wget to download an online eBook

sorry for my English.... I to try to Download this Ebook, I tried different methods with Wget, with wget --domains --no-parent https://www.oreilly.de/german/freebooks/linag3ger and wget --domains --no-parent…
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