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Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files

From Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
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 2026-07-08 17:51 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <112m2n6$3qn2a$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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Carlos E. R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> On 2026-07-05 15:48, Dave Royal wrote:
>> "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> Wrote in message:
>> 
>>> On 2026-07-05 05:57, Maria Sophia wrote:
>>>> Maria Sophia wrote:
>>>>> I finally forced Android 16 to behave like a real operating system again.
>>>>> I carved out a sane workflow inside an OS that keeps trying to turn into
>>>>> iOS, and I did it without surrendering my /0000 Unix /usr/local philosophy.
>>>> 
>>>> SUMMARY (Linux users added because it was Linux to the rescue this time!)
>>>> 
>>>> Windows and Linux can easily open HTML books stored in custom top-level
>>>> hierarchies, even if the books contain tens of thousands of pages & jpegs.
>>>> 
>>>> Unfortunately, Android 10 through 16 cannot open HTML book stored in custom
>>>> top-level POSIX folders such as /storage/emulated/0/0000/books/book1/.
>>> 
>>> I don't know what are "books" in this context.
>>> 
>>> If you mean electronic books, for me they are epubs, and I handle them
>>> with Calibre.
>>> 
>>> https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79019
>>> 
>>> I see html format is available, but I see no reason to use it, unless as
>>> an intermediary to transform to something else.
>> 
>> Quite a lot of technical documentation is published as an html
>> 'book'. This for example:
>> https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
>> 
>> Historically html is a dialect of sgml, which was designed for
>> documentation
> 
> Ok...
> 
> Heh, they charge 45$ 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.
> 
> 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. 

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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
      Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-07-04 22:51 -0400
        Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-07-04 23:57 -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 Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-07-08 10:10 +0100
              Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-07-08 10:32 -0400
          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
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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 10:06 -0600
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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 Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-07-08 11:14 -0400
                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
                Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2026-07-08 17:51 +0000
                Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-07-08 21:49 +0200
              Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2026-07-08 17:44 +0000
            Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-07-08 10:39 +0100
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          Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-07-06 10:47 -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
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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 12:54 -0600
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