Converting epubs to Plain-Text?

[Linux for blind general discussion]

the actual question is about calibre itself.
One cannot run a command line tool if the entire package itself cannot be 
run  from the console if that  is a better question.



On Fri, 26 Nov 2021, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Who ever this is,
> Yes, ebook-convert is the command line tool which is part of calibre that can 
> be used for the conversions.
> Regards, Willem
>
>
> On Thu, 25 Nov 2021, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>
>>  Question?
>>  There is an edition of clibre that works from the command line only?
>> 
>> 
>>
>>  On Thu, 25 Nov 2021, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>> 
>> >  Hi,
>> >  I have not read the full thread, but here goes.
>> >  Install calibre, then use ebook-convert epubfile.epub plaintextfile.txt
>> >  for the most basic form.
>> >  There also is epr, a console-based epub reader.
>> >  pandoc also will do the basic epub to txt conversion for you.
>> >  FWIW, Willem
>> > 
>> > 
>> >  On Thu, 25 Nov 2021, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>> > 
>> > >   Hi All.
>> > > 
>> > >   Personally, I like Unoconv.
>> > > 
>> > >   25.11.21 17:47, Linux for blind general discussion ????????:
>> > > >   I don't know of any tools specifically for ePub... but I recently
>> > > >   found out ePubs are just zip archives with most of the content 
>> > > >   stored
>> > > >   as html files and some metadata files used by ePub readers.
>> > > > >   Also, I haven't used it, but I've heard others describe pandoc as 
>> > > > >   the
>> > > >   anything to anything else of document conversion.
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