Last week I bought a couple books, not ebooks. I considered buying the ebook, but don't want to need a special device/appliance to read it. I'd much prefer to read ebooks on the Linux (CentOS) machine I'm already using.
Also, I'd like to be able to programmatically convert the ebook into a format I can edit myself, e.g., HTML.
I have no experience owning or purchasing ebooks. Could people who have clue me in on how they work and if the above is possible.
Thanks much.
On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 07:44 -0500, ken wrote:
I considered buying the ebook, but don't want to need a special device/appliance to read it.
I use this all the time and am very happy with it.
Frank,
Thanks for the info. I looked on the fbreader site and didn't see any mention of a way to export any of the several ebook formats into plain text or html. In your use of it, have you found the fbreader has this capability?
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 03:32:48PM -0500, ken wrote:
Thanks for the info. I looked on the fbreader site and didn't see any mention of a way to export any of the several ebook formats into plain text or html. In your use of it, have you found the fbreader has this
Check out "calibre"; a great program for managing ebook libraries and converting between formats.
Stephen,
Thanks for the tip. It seems calibre outputs not to html, but to txt formatted files. In the past I've written code to convert Quark (Apple) to html, so this functionality is something I might be able to provide (given, of course, enough time in my life for it).
Checking through the dependencies for the latest version of calibre, I see that centos (v.5.4 updated just moments ago) doesn't provide all of what's needed. If you're running calibre on centos 5.4, which version?
Thanks again for the info. ken
On 01/02/2010 03:40 PM Stephen Harris wrote:
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 03:32:48PM -0500, ken wrote:
Thanks for the info. I looked on the fbreader site and didn't see any mention of a way to export any of the several ebook formats into plain text or html. In your use of it, have you found the fbreader has this
Check out "calibre"; a great program for managing ebook libraries and converting between formats.
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 08:11:53AM -0500, ken wrote:
Hi ken; could you please not top-post on these lists. The list-standard is to properly quote and "in-line" responses. Thanks!
Thanks for the tip. It seems calibre outputs not to html, but to txt
Huh; that's one format it's missing, then! It can output in prc, lit, pdf, rtf and so many others that I'd have thought it could have done html as well.
Checking through the dependencies for the latest version of calibre, I see that centos (v.5.4 updated just moments ago) doesn't provide all of what's needed. If you're running calibre on centos 5.4, which version?
I'm not currently using calibre; I just knew of it.
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