Popular eBook format
Supports digital content protection. Used by the Barnes and Noble Nook device, among others.
Questions tagged [epub]
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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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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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EPUB reader for *BSD/Linux
What are the best native EPUB readers for *BSD/Linux. Browser add-ons are not an option.
I prefer non-Qt applications but you can share Qt applications if you want. If possible, I want a program that remembers the page I was last viewing.
Rufo El Magufo
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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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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?
xralf
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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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Does using epub2pdf pose a potential security risk? Is there an alternative?
epub2pdf is a fairly platform-independent program. Based on Java, it executes without a hitch on my machine, with no dependencies.
However, strangely enough, the program requires an active internet connection to work properly. I didn't realize this…
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Convert EPUB to TXT and preserve original formatting
I have a programming book in EPUB format and I'm trying to convert it to TXT.
For that I'm using the utility ebook-convert from calibre.
The problem is that the standard usage:
ebook-convert book.epub book.txt
removes indentation in source code…
ka3ak
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How to convert PDF to e pub in a fixed layout in Calibre
I am trying to use Calibre to convert a PDF file to Epub format with a fixed layout, but I am not able to convert it. Can somebody tell me the steps to convert in a fixed layout in Calibre?
mohan rathour
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Recursively grep through epub files
I tried the answers here, but without luck.
find . -name "*.epub" -exec zipgrep pattern {} \;
showed me "matched", but didn't give me the matching epub file back. Also, it returned huge blobs of data, which were hard to grep through.
grep -a didn't…
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XMLstarlet to fix image tags and replace path for images
I have multiple .XHTML files in the folder. The top declaration part is as follows:
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How to cat the first page of an epub file?
epubcat book.epub 1 3
# outputs plain text of pages 1 through 3
I don’t know if epubs have the concept of “pages.” If not, perhaps we can say each 400 chars are a page?
A general solution that works for other ebook formats is better (mobi, azw3,…
HappyFace
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ebook-convert for all .epub files in the folder
This code converts epub file to txt file:
ebook-convert "book.epub" "book.txt"
How can I use it to convert all .epub files in the directory?
I am using Ubuntu.
Code
from os import listdir, rename
from os.path import isfile, join
import…
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Convert Blog to PDF or Epub Book
I want a command or script to collect all the posts on a given blog and convert them into a PDF and/or Epub book without needing to be the owner of the blog. This website allows users to convert blogs to PDF without needing to be the blog owner, but…
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