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 should be suitable for reading and piping into other programs for further processing.

Installing

ebread should be able to run on most Unix-like operating systems, as long as they support the dependencies below. There is currently no plan to support Windows.

ebread requires the rakudo compiler.

ebread depends on the following Raku modules, which can be installed via the zef package manager.

• File::Temp

• File::Which

• XML

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

• unzip

and at least one of the following text 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 --man option.

rakudoc App::Ebread
ebread --man

Copyright

Copyright 2024-2025, Samuel Young

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