Questions tagged [ebooks]
E-Books are books released in digital formats such as PDF and CHM.
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Flatpak-installed Calibre: cannot find ebook-convert command
On my Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon (Wilma) based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble). I ended up installing Calibre in spite my initial dislike, via Flatpak: $ flatpak install flathub com.calibre_ebook.calibre The ...
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How to use wget to download an online eBook
sorry for my English.... I to try to Download this Ebook, I tried different methods with Wget, with wget --domains --no-parent https://www.oreilly.de/german/freebooks/linag3ger and wget --domains -...
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Lightweight PDF to mobi and epub converter for Ubuntu
By lightweight I mean NOT Calibre. Please. I do not need a cataloging/library management software- which would not only consume unnecessary disk space but also ignore my current cataloging which I ...
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Extract TOC of epub file
Lately I hit the command that will print the TOC of a pdf file. mutool show file.pdf outline I'd like to use a command for the epub format with similar simplicity of usage and nice result as the ...
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Downloading a .epub from a .acsm
I want to transfer books I buy on Google Play (downloads a .acsm) to my Kobo reader device. Everything I can find on internet about it: has you running Adobe Digital Editions aims at removing the DRM ...
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How can I highlight text in Calibre?
according to a 4 year-old forum entry at Calibre, they started working on the feature of being able to highlight text, 4 years ago. Does anyone know how if it is implemented yet and how to use it?
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Recommendation for an eBook reader for Gnome
There are eBook readers for Android, there's Okular for KDE, and stuff like that, but what I want, is an eBook (ePub format) reader for my normal Linux desktop. I know there's Calibre, which goes way ...
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Convert pdf file to epub
Is to possible to convert pdf file to epub format without errors? Is there some application in Linux that can do it? I found only Ecub and Calibre which give bad results or fail. A command-line ...
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