[HN Gopher] ePub-utils: A Python library and CLI tool for inspec...
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ePub-utils: A Python library and CLI tool for inspecting ePub from
the terminal
Author : ernstgnzlz
Score : 103 points
Date : 2025-05-02 23:26 UTC (23 hours ago)
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| Dromadie wrote:
| Looks interesting. Does it support epub3 series?
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| Any plans to move beyond reading to also allow writing metadata?
| ryen wrote:
| Does this also provide an api to paginate and provide text and
| images from the ebook?
| kanodiaashu wrote:
| This looks exciting! What are the key improvements over the
| ebooklib python package?
| tuxpenguine wrote:
| +1 looking for the same answer
| Hackbraten wrote:
| On the surface, one difference seems to be that the former has
| a CLI.
| sigwinch wrote:
| I feel like mupdf probably fulfills this and very much more.
| xaqfox wrote:
| For better or for worse, Mupdf has a more restrictive license
| (AGPL VS Apache).
| Flex247A wrote:
| Personal plug: https://github.com/lalitshankarch/Qitab
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| This is a small EPUB reader I made that uses the system Webview
| to render EPUB documents!
| lupusreal wrote:
| 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.
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