I think I finally figured it out! With help, of course, from my wise and
helpful community. Thanks! And reading the man page for elinks. :>
for direct viewing in less:
pandoc -s -t html City_of_Truth-Morrow.epub | elinks -dump-color-mode 2
-force-html | less -ir
to make a file to keep, for repeated viewing in less:
pandoc -s -t html City_of_Truth-Morrow.epub | elinks -dump-color-mode 2
-force-html > City_of_Truth-Morrow-formatted.txt
Now my next question is, what is the tool that does the *best* job of turning a
PDF book into a readable text document? Via html or docbook or markdown or
whatever--doesn't matter. My previous experience trying things out to achieve
this goal is that it's just not worth it. The output always winds up
un-readable.
