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!

THEY'RE MADE OUT OF MEAT 02/09/2018

I always love to read this short story about "Humans":

"They're made out of meat."

"Meat?"

"Meat. They're made out of meat."

"Meat?"

"There's no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way through. They're completely meat."

"That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars?"

"They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines."

"So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact."

"They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines."

"That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat."

"I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in that sector and they're made out of meat."

... continue here.

Author: Terry_Bisson