Converting epubs to Plain-Text?

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Hi,
You do not need to have an X server running to use Calibre's 
ebook-convert.
What you cannot use, is the calibre epub editer as that is a graphical 
package.

You can use all features of the converter from the command line.
HTH,  Willem


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

> My specific interest is in calibre, as that is the program under discussion, 
> or one of them at least.
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> On Fri, 26 Nov 2021, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
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>> 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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