[FM Discuss] Convert an html on epub

[Tuukka Hastrup]

25.03.2011 23:32, Simon Worthington kirjoitti:
>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Elisa Godoy de Castro Guerra
>> <elisa.dcg at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Booki import book in epub, i would love get this book in epub. It will
>>> take
>>> less time import an epub than copy and paste the html or the txt.
>>> But i don't know how to do that.
>>>
>>> Anybody have a great tool making this conversion ?
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I think Calibre does have this ability: http://calibre-ebook.com/ (not
>> sure if there's a command-line mode to automatize the process,
>> though).
> Calibre is for creation and editing ePubs

I got the impression that Calibre would be mostly for reading e-books. 
It seems to have nice import functionality via its ebook-convert command:

$ sudo apt-get install calibre
$ wget http://eloquentjavascript.net/Eloquent%20JavaScript.zip
$ unzip "Eloquent JavaScript.zip"
$ rm "Eloquent JavaScript"/print.html
$ ebook-convert "Eloquent JavaScript"/index.html ejs.epub

I made the resulting ejs.epub file available at 
http://tuukka.iki.fi/tmp/ejs.epub and it imported ok to my Booki 
install. The conversion is not perfect but some of the options in 
Calibre could improve that.

(If I don't delete the print.html file in the process, the resulting 
epub will contain each chapter twice, which triggers bugs in Booki.)


Hoping this helps,
Tuukka