Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." 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: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 21:49:12 +0200 Lines: 59 Message-ID: References: <112c25r$2gt7$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <112cbas$1p57$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <112cd5q$9e5$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <112cgs7$86t$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <112ckmr$2ta8$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <112dnb9$143vq$1@dont-email.me> <112m2n6$3qn2a$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 85uaanROiHl0vjNJOTB/wgGDnoW5iL16Z4TrlkuNlLQj9OW3d5 Cancel-Lock: sha1:HEUX0TpFAFK+eQ0DWnrDwqxi4R4= sha256:++zIp+9dkvLxjTIXsGsuLj4O5PMOkCHwmdszlfqfGMk= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <112m2n6$3qn2a$1@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:154376 alt.os.linux:82926 alt.comp.os.windows-10:194345 On 2026-07-08 19:51, Chris wrote: > Carlos E. R. wrote: >> On 2026-07-05 15:48, Dave Royal wrote: >>> "Carlos E. R." Wrote in message: >>> >>>> On 2026-07-05 05:57, Maria Sophia wrote: >>>>> Maria Sophia wrote: >>>>>> I finally forced Android 16 to behave like a real operating system again. >>>>>> I carved out a sane workflow inside an OS that keeps trying to turn into >>>>>> iOS, and I did it without surrendering my /0000 Unix /usr/local philosophy. >>>>> >>>>> SUMMARY (Linux users added because it was Linux to the rescue this time!) >>>>> >>>>> Windows and Linux can easily open HTML books stored in custom top-level >>>>> hierarchies, even if the books contain tens of thousands of pages & jpegs. >>>>> >>>>> Unfortunately, Android 10 through 16 cannot open HTML book stored in custom >>>>> top-level POSIX folders such as /storage/emulated/0/0000/books/book1/. >>>> >>>> I don't know what are "books" in this context. >>>> >>>> If you mean electronic books, for me they are epubs, and I handle them >>>> with Calibre. >>>> >>>> https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79019 >>>> >>>> I see html format is available, but I see no reason to use it, unless as >>>> an intermediary to transform to something else. >>> >>> Quite a lot of technical documentation is published as an html >>> 'book'. This for example: >>> https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ >>> >>> Historically html is a dialect of sgml, which was designed for >>> documentation >> >> Ok... >> >> Heh, they charge 45$ 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. >> >> I wonder if Calibre can convert that to epub. > > No need. If you go to the github you can download the source and build it > in whatever format you want. > Ah. Right. Did not occur to me, but in the past I had little luck with doc building. -- Cheers, Carlos E.R. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;