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On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 06:31:54AM -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > There is a book I am interested in, and it is available in ebook > format. I'm new to the ebook scene. What options are there to > convert it to pdf if I want to view it on my linux laptop? I don't > have any interest, at this time, of investing in an ebook reader (such > as Kindle, etc). Most ebook formats are basically wrapped around HTML, or something semantically equivalent. (It's not unusual to see a ZIP archive with one or more simplified HTML files and one or more JPEGs for covers and illustrations, plus a file carrying the metadata.) Assuming there is no DRM or you can break the DRM, your options are: 1. Use a general ebook-format reader on your Linux laptop, such as FBReader. 2. Use a conversion program such as Calibre. 3. Look into the format and see what you can pull out. You are unlikely to have to get to (3). -dsr- -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't defend freedom by getting rid of it.
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