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| From | "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.mobile.android, alt.os.linux, alt.comp.os.windows-10 |
| Subject | Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files |
| Date | 2026-07-05 22:50 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <navuctFifh4U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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On 2026-07-05 22:00, Dave Royal wrote:
> "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> Wrote in message:
>
>> On 2026-07-05 15:48, Dave Royal wrote:
>>> "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> Wrote in message:
>>>
>>>> On 2026-07-05 05:57, Maria Sophia wrote:
>>>>> Maria Sophia wrote:
>>>>>> I finally forced Android 16 to behave like a real operating system again.
>>>>>> I carved out a sane workflow inside an OS that keeps trying to turn into
>>>>>> iOS, and I did it without surrendering my /0000 Unix /usr/local philosophy.
>>>>>
>>>>> SUMMARY (Linux users added because it was Linux to the rescue this time!)
>>>>>
>>>>> Windows and Linux can easily open HTML books stored in custom top-level
>>>>> hierarchies, even if the books contain tens of thousands of pages & jpegs.
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately, Android 10 through 16 cannot open HTML book stored in custom
>>>>> top-level POSIX folders such as /storage/emulated/0/0000/books/book1/.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know what are "books" in this context.
>>>>
>>>> If you mean electronic books, for me they are epubs, and I handle them
>>>> with Calibre.
>>>>
>>>> https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79019
>>>>
>>>> I see html format is available, but I see no reason to use it, unless as
>>>> an intermediary to transform to something else.
>>>
>>> Quite a lot of technical documentation is published as an html
>>> 'book'. This for example:
>>> https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
>>>
>>> Historically html is a dialect of sgml, which was designed for
>>> documentation
>>
>> Ok...
>>
>> Heh, they charge 45$ for the epub version.
>>
>> No ZIP that I can see :-?
>>
>> I would have to download using wget, and this tool modifies the links so
>> that they are correct for your local installation.
>
> The links are normally relative to the document root, so no need
> to modify them.
>
> In the days when software was released on CD such html documentation was common. But any browser could read local http files then.
>
Yes, I know. But calling that "book" confused me.
>> I wonder if Calibre can convert that to epub.
>
> If so I suppose you'd have to specify the medium size - eg A4. An
> html file is liquid - it fills any window or page size.
Epub is also liquid. PDF is not.
I did a quick test. I downloaded that "book":
wget --mirror --convert-links --adjust-extension --page-requisites --no-parent -nH https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/
Then told Calibre to import it, then to convert to epub, which it did.
cer@Laicolasse:~/Documents/Calibre Library/Unknown/The Rust Programming Language - The Rust Programming Language (80)> l
total 5512
drwxr-xr-x 2 cer users 155 Jul 5 22:38 ./
drwxr-xr-x 5 cer users 150 Jul 5 22:36 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 cer users 1114 Jul 5 22:39 metadata.opf
-rw-r--r-- 1 cer users 3025227 Jul 5 22:38 The Rust Programming Language - The Rust P - Unknown.epub
-rw-r--r-- 1 cer users 2610606 Jul 5 22:36 The Rust Programming Language - The Rust P - Unknown.zip
cer@Laicolasse:~/Documents/Calibre Library/Unknown/The Rust Programming Language - The Rust Programming Language (80)>
Of course, it is up for someone interested in whatever book to actually tailor the conversion to his convenience. In my test, it seems to stop at chapter 3 for some reason. Surely someone has done this before and there is documentation somewhere.
Calibre is also capable of viewing the ZIP file directly, but it calls firefox to do the actual viewing.
--
Cheers,
Carlos E.R.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;
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How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-07-04 18:40 -0400
Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-07-04 21:17 -0400
Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-07-04 21:48 -0400
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Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-07-04 23:57 -0400
Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-07-04 23:13 -0600
Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-07-05 13:29 +0200
Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> - 2026-07-05 14:48 +0100
Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-07-05 10:06 -0600
Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-07-05 19:10 +0200
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Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> - 2026-07-05 21:00 +0100
Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-07-05 22:50 +0200
Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-07-05 23:06 -0600
Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-07-06 12:05 +0200
Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-07-06 12:24 +0200
Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-07-06 10:28 -0600
Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-07-06 19:50 +0200
Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-07-06 09:36 -0600
Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-07-06 19:56 +0200
Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> - 2026-07-06 07:58 +0100
Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-07-06 12:12 +0200
Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-07-05 15:12 -0600
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Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-07-05 10:38 -0600
Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-07-05 18:22 +0100
Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-07-05 12:16 -0600
Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-07-05 19:41 +0200
Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-07-05 12:54 -0600
Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-07-05 23:11 +0200
Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-07-05 15:23 -0600
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