Read EPUB from Terminal 25/12/2018

The REAL Nerd do not use an EBook Reader. Use Terminal Emulators ONLY! :-D

EPUB file are easy to read. Technically an EPUB file is a ZIP file with containing a bunch on HTML files. So, it is pretty simple to read an EPUB using LYNX or W3M (terminal based browsers).

Using LYNX

unzip -l -p MY_EPUB_FILENAME text/* | lynx --stdin

Using W3M

unzip -l -p MY_EPUB_FILENAME text/* | w3m -T text/html

BASH Functions

Save this functions inside your .bashrc or .bash_profile file and you will have a persistent terminal command function to be used to read your lovely loved ebooks:

#read ebook with lynx
function epubl {
    unzip -l -p "$1" text/* | lynx --stdin
}
#read ebook with w3m
function epubw {
    unzip -l -p "$1" text/* | w3m -T text/html
}

Have FUN!