Major Mode for Reading EPUBs in Emacs

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Post by JNRowe » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 7:11 AM UTC

Major Mode for Reading EPUBs in Emacs
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Re: Major Mode for Reading EPUBs in Emacs

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Post by catalogia » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 8:36 AM UTC

Nov is my primary ereader these days, particularly since the read-aloud package compliments it so well. If I had one complaint, it's that I wish it supported concatenating all chapters of a book into one single buffer.

Re: Major Mode for Reading EPUBs in Emacs

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Post by jangid » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 9:18 AM UTC

From where do you guys purchase or download (free) EPUBS? I wanted Christensen books and didn't find any. Either they are tied to Kindle or Noob.

Re: Major Mode for Reading EPUBs in Emacs

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Post by michaelmrose » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 9:20 AM UTC

jangid wrote: post #3

From where do you guys purchase or download (free) EPUBS? I wanted Christensen books and didn't find any. Either they are tied to Kindle or Noob.

From the same people that run sci hub. Please remember that authors need to eat too though. If you have money you should support them by buying their books or they may write fewer of them for you to enjoy.

Re: Major Mode for Reading EPUBs in Emacs

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Post by michaelmrose » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 9:26 AM UTC

This works quite well.

Re: Major Mode for Reading EPUBs in Emacs

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Post by Davidbrcz » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 9:37 AM UTC

What's this read aloud package ?

Re: Major Mode for Reading EPUBs in Emacs

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Post by catalogia » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 9:45 AM UTC

Davidbrcz wrote: post #6

What's this read aloud package ?

https://github.com/gromnitsky/read-aloud.el

Re: Major Mode for Reading EPUBs in Emacs

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Post by snthd » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 10:04 AM UTC

jangid wrote: post #3

From where do you guys purchase or download (free) EPUBS? I wanted Christensen books and didn't find any. Either they are tied to Kindle or Noob.

For public domain books there's https://standardebooks.org

Re: Major Mode for Reading EPUBs in Emacs

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Post by zozbot234 » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 10:12 AM UTC

snthd wrote: post #8

jangid wrote: post #3

From where do you guys purchase or download (free) EPUBS? I wanted Christensen books and didn't find any. Either they are tied to Kindle or Noob.

For public domain books there's https://standardebooks.org

Project Gutenberg also gives you EPUB downloads for any of their ebooks. (Though some older ebooks are transcribed/processed as text-only, so the HTML/EPUB is autogenerated and loses the original structure.)

Re: Major Mode for Reading EPUBs in Emacs

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Post by sadfklsjlkjwt » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 10:20 AM UTC

michaelmrose wrote: post #4

jangid wrote: post #3

From where do you guys purchase or download (free) EPUBS? I wanted Christensen books and didn't find any. Either they are tied to Kindle or Noob.

From the same people that run sci hub. Please remember that authors need to eat too though. If you have money you should support them by buying their books or they may write fewer of them for you to enjoy.

This doesn't excuse DRM. Personally I don't read ebooks because (1) I won't accept DRM, (2) I won't pirate. Instead I buy a few books in dead tree format but mainly lots of authors are losing out.