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