ebook-speaker/UTF-8 long files

[Linux for blind general discussion]

That just give me an error on input/output files however though

On 20/09/2020 14:32, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Try this
> ebook-convert file.mobi file.txt --linearize-tables --asciize
> See if that fixes your problem.
> Rob
>
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> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 14:07:24 +0100
> Subject: Re: ebook-speaker/UTF-8 long files
>
>> Tim, it's ebook-convert from the Calibre package, and yes they are .mobi
>> format originally, and given I've not found a way to natively read them
>> on Linux with Orca, I figured okay, I'll convert them. They do display
>> fine in Pluma however and I can read them that way, but I'd like the
>> convenience of ebook-speaker really.
>>
>> On 20/09/2020 13:30, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>> Tim here.  You say "It tells me to wait", but it's hard to tell
>>> whether it's "ebook-converr" or "ebook-speaker" that's giving the
>>> error.  So it's hard to tell whether it's source lines in the
>>> original ebook that are giving trouble (in which case it would help
>>> to know which type of ebook:  EPUB, Mobi, etc), or the .txt output.
>>> If it's the former, it sounds like an issue with "ebook-converr"
>>> which I'm not sure I know how to deal with other than to try a
>>> different program.  If it's successfully producing .txt files but
>>> they have long lines that choke "ebook-speaker", you might be able to
>>> use `fmt` or `fold` to re-wrap the lines in the .txt so that they're
>>> shorter and hopefully don't choke "ebook-speaker".
>>>
>>> -tim
>>>
>>> On September 20, 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>>> So I just ran into this and was wondering if anyone else has. I've
>>>> converted ebooks to .txt with ebook-converr and wanted to run them
>>>> by ebook-speaker. It tells me to wait since it's a UTF-8 file with
>>>> long phrases and give sme numbers, then does....precisely nothing,
>>>> boots me back to the terminal with a bell sound...
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>
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