ePub-utils: A Python library and CLI tool for inspecting ePub from the terminal

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Post by ernstgnzlz » Fri, May 02, 2025, 11:26 PM UTC

ePub-utils: A Python library and CLI tool for inspecting ePub from the terminal
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Post by Dromadie » Sat, May 03, 2025, 1:42 AM UTC

Looks interesting. Does it support epub3 series?

Any plans to move beyond reading to also allow writing metadata?

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Post by ryen » Sat, May 03, 2025, 3:39 AM UTC

Does this also provide an api to paginate and provide text and images from the ebook?

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Post by kanodiaashu » Sat, May 03, 2025, 5:50 AM UTC

This looks exciting! What are the key improvements over the ebooklib python package?

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Post by tuxpenguine » Sat, May 03, 2025, 7:15 AM UTC

kanodiaashu wrote: post #4

This looks exciting! What are the key improvements over the ebooklib python package?

+1 looking for the same answer

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Post by sigwinch » Sat, May 03, 2025, 9:54 AM UTC

I feel like mupdf probably fulfills this and very much more.

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Post by Hackbraten » Sat, May 03, 2025, 1:26 PM UTC

kanodiaashu wrote: post #4

This looks exciting! What are the key improvements over the ebooklib python package?

On the surface, one difference seems to be that the former has a CLI.

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Post by xaqfox » Sat, May 03, 2025, 2:27 PM UTC

sigwinch wrote: post #6

I feel like mupdf probably fulfills this and very much more.

For better or for worse, Mupdf has a more restrictive license (AGPL VS Apache).

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Post by Flex247A » Sat, May 03, 2025, 5:59 PM UTC

Personal plug: https://github.com/lalitshankarch/Qitab

This is a small EPUB reader I made that uses the system Webview to render EPUB documents!

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Post by lupusreal » Sat, May 03, 2025, 6:21 PM UTC

Calibre ships with some useful command line tools for dealing with ebooks. ebook-meta allows you to inspect and alter ebook metadata, and ebook-convert can convert various formats between each other. This functionality is also exposed in the Caliber GUI of course, but that can be an.. acquired taste.