Comment on What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader

• 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.

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  • runefehay@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It looks like it is powered by a microcontroller. Maybe it isn't powerful enough to support epub?

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    • 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.

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  • ricdeh@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably because the computational hardware is not powerful enough to implement a (proto) web browser

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    • mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s a raspberry pi. It can work with it on the new version.

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      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It said it’s a 120mhz SAMD51 ARM Cortex-M4.

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• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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• mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Calibre already does this but cool we have options.

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• 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.

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  • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Technically, epub is basically a wepage and thus everything but easy.

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    • Morphit@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You could just strip out the content with a big regex. Surely nothing could go wrong with ̴̬̮̳͔̬̹͖̩͍̄̈̓̀͋̀̎̊̈́̑͛͊̕t̶̘͇̺̠̗̓̿̆̓͋͗́͑͆̈́̈́͊̉̈̍̚ͅḥ̷̡̛͓̹͕̞͎̃͂̽͠ͅã̸͈̟̩̫̪̣̳̜̑̈́̓͗͘t̴̡̮̹͌́̄̔̂́̒͑͘.

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    • 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

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      • JaymesRS@literature.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Last time someone told me I could find out if I would just unzip it didn’t go so well…

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Okay but why

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