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

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 19:10 +0200
Message-ID <navhfjFgthuU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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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.

-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.
        ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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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 21:17 -0400
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                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
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