Title: How to read a epub book in a terminal | |
Author: Solène | |
Date: 17 April 2018 | |
Tags: unix | |
Description: | |
If you ever had to read an ebook in a epub format, you may have find | |
yourself stumbling on *Calibre* software. Personally, I don't enjoy | |
reading a book in *Calibre* at all. Choice is important and it seems | |
that *Calibre* is the only choice for this task. | |
But, as the epub format is very simple, it's possible to easily read | |
it with any web browser even w3m or lynx. | |
With a few commands, you can easily find xhtml files that can be | |
opened with a web browser, an epub file is a zip containing mostly | |
xhtml, css and images files. The xhtml files have links to CSS and | |
images contained in others folders unzipped. | |
In the following commands, I prefer to copy the file in a new | |
directory because when you will unzip it, it will create folder in | |
your current working directory. | |
$ mkdir /tmp/myebook/ | |
$ cd /tmp/myebook | |
$ cp ~/book.epub . | |
$ unzip book.epub | |
$ cd OPS/xhtml | |
$ ls *xhtml | |
I tried with differents epub files, in most case you should find a lot | |
of files named chapters-XX.xhtml with XX being 01, 02, 03 and so | |
forth. Just open the files in the correct order with a web browser aka | |
"html viewer". |