The creator is working on an epub-to-text-file converter here:
Comment on What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader
BoneALisa@lemm.ee 6 months ago
IIRC it only suports plain text files / Markdown rn. Not supporting EPUB is a non-starter for me. I use my Kobo right now and love it. If they add EPUB support i will heavily consider building one.
Isoprenoid@programming.dev 6 months ago
WaDef7@kbin.social 6 months ago
I'm not sure I understand, epub is both the industry standard and an open format, as far as I know. Why not work on using it or build it around epub from the get-go?
I have to admit I'll have to wait for the project to start implementing epub to consider getting on board, but it's still a great effort.
runefehay@kbin.social 6 months ago
It looks like it is powered by a microcontroller. Maybe it isn't powerful enough to support epub?
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s a 120mhz Arm CPU. That’s more than enough for epub. For comparison the 25 Mhz 68030 in the Next computer used Adobe Postcript (PDF) as it’s GUI.
ricdeh@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Probably because the computational hardware is not powerful enough to implement a (proto) web browser
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s a raspberry pi. It can work with it on the new version.
Hyperreality@kbin.social 6 months ago
Doesn't calibre also have a built in converter?
It used to be able to strip DRM from stuff too, but I think they got rid of that for legal reasons.
jayandp@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yes, Calibre can convert to most formats.
DRM removal is not a feature of Calibre, but of plugins you can add to it. Kobo and Adobe DRM have plugins available. Amazon DRM plugin is in a poor state as Amazon cracked down on a major method earlier this year.
Hyperreality@kbin.social 6 months ago
Possible I did it that way. I seem to remember also being able to do it, by exporting it to my old sony e-reader, which is so old it doesn't have proper DRM, but I did have to sign up for adobe digital editions or some or other BS.
Huge waste of time, especially for something I'd paid full price for, so after that I gave up on buying ebooks, and simply pirated them.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Calibre already does this but cool we have options.
solrize@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Epub to text is very easy and Pandoc can do it. I end up using lynx -dump because that’s faster though.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 6 months ago
Technically, epub is basically a wepage and thus everything but easy.
Morphit@feddit.uk 6 months ago
You could just strip out the content with a big regex. Surely nothing could go wrong with ̴̬̮̳͔̬̹͖̩͍̄̈̓̀͋̀̎̊̈́̑͛͊̕t̶̘͇̺̠̗̓̿̆̓͋͗́͑͆̈́̈́͊̉̈̍̚ͅḥ̷̡̛͓̹͕̞͎̃͂̽͠ͅã̸͈̟̩̫̪̣̳̜̑̈́̓͗͘t̴̡̮̹͌́̄̔̂́̒͑͘.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You can unzip an epub and find out. Ive done it a couple of times to remove some images from books.
unzip book.epub
helenslunch@feddit.nl 6 months ago
Okay but why
Synthead@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah it’s an interesting project, but it looks bad with the printed case and exposed tract switches, and seems to have little functionality.