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My little e-book reader

Formats: EPUB.

Was annoyed with sluggishness of most e-book readers available, this works but... it's sluggish. Seems to be the way I process the HTML is the problem, I switched from my own code to html2text + iconv + writing and reading to and from files while converting. Before I simply stripped all <> tags.

TODO

  • improve html -> plaintext conversion
  • extract the title of the books (EPUB) for display in the library list instead of filename
  • select text while reading
    • save snippets (where to store them?)
    • add comments
  • dictionary lookup of selected word
  • MOBI support
  • non-terminal user interface

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dependencies:

libzip libncursesw5

to compile:

cd html2text-1.3.2a
./configure
./make
cd ..
make

if you have any issues with compiling html2text, please refer to the INSTALL file in the html2text directory