ebread

ebread (ebook reader) is a program that dumps the contents of an EPUB ebook to plain text. It accomplishes this via the HTML dump feature found in many text-mode web browsers, like lynx. The outputted text is should be suitable for reading and piping into other programs for further processing.

Installing

ebread requires the rakudo compiler. ebread should be able to run on most Unix-like operating systems. There is currently no plan to support Windows.

ebread depends on the following Raku modules, which can be installed via zef:

File::Temp
File::Which
XML

ebread also depends on the following system binaries to be installed:

unzip

ebread also needs at least one of the following text web browsers:

elinks
links/links2
lynx
w3m

Once all of the necessary dependencies are installed, ebread can be installed via zef:

zef install .

Usage

ebread [options] epub

By default, ebread will dump the text contents of a given EPUB to stdout. For more extensive documentation on the usage of ebread, you should consult the manual, which can be read either via rakudoc or ebread's --help option.

rakudoc App::Ebread
ebread --help

Copyright

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0.