On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:56:00 -0400 (EDT) Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote:
> Hi, > Let me be sure I understand you. > If I have a file with the extension epub I can treat it as a zip file > finding an html file inside? If you don't have an ebook reader installed, then file associations should link epub files with the archivers, Ark and so on. They will show one or more html files, possibly with a jpg or two, possibly in a directory structure, and some more metadata including a mimetype flag. They will extract some or all of this, as you wish. If you don't have useful file associations, just start an archiver and open your epub with it. Ark can certainly be used from the command line, I'd assume the others can be also. > or do I need to save the file as a zip one first? No. There is a Swiss Army Knife for epubs and the like, but it is something of an armoury full of axes and chainsaws rather than a knife. It's a fairly big beast, called Calibre, which has been mentioned already, and will convert practically any text-based filetype to any other, including plain text and all the common ebook formats. It's also pretty good at managing a large number of ebooks, and talking to Kindles and so on, none of which you probably need now, and contains a reasonable ebook reader program. It provides the command-line program ebook-convert. -- Joe
