Converting epubs to Plain-Text?

[Linux for blind general discussion]

My specific interest is in calibre, as that is the program under 
discussion, or one of them at least.



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

> Uh, I don't know about Caliber specifically, but there are plenty of
> packages out there that include both a GUI and one or more CLI tools,
> and such packages don't always have feature parity between what's
> available in the GUI and what's available from the command line, but
> I've never known a package including a GUI frontend preventing one
> from running the command line components on a text-only console.
>
> Granted, it's also common for a GUI Frontend to be a separate package
> from the CLI tools it is a frontend for.
>
> On 11/26/21, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 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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