Hello group! An NGO in my locality provides visually impaired people with free newspapers in EPUB3 format. They use a software called Calibre to download the newspaper and convert it to EPUB, it then has to be converted to EPUB3. It is her they face difficulty, they have to do it manually and they don't have the adequate staff. Can this process be automated? Can EPUB files be converted to EPUB 3 automatically?
All suggestion and shared experiences are welcome. -- Regards, Sociohack
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Travis Siegel <tsiegel@...>
I've never heard of epub3. If the files are already epub, why do
you need to convert them to anything else? Epub files are
perfectly accessible all by themselves.
But, to answer your question, as far as I know, it is relatively
easy to get calibre to convert to any format you like by default.
Just set the epub3 to your default format, then any file you copy
into it's startup folder will automaticlaly be converted into
epub3. It's been quite a while since I've played around with
calibre, so I don't know the exact steps for setting formats and
automatic conversions and such, but it is possible, and folks do
this sort of thing all the time.
On 11/2/2018 3:49 AM, Sociohack AC
wrote:
Hello group!
An NGO in my locality provides visually impaired people with free
newspapers in EPUB3 format. They use a software called Calibre to
download the newspaper and convert it to EPUB, it then has to be
converted to EPUB3. It is her they face difficulty, they have to
do it manually and they don't have the adequate staff. Can this
process be automated? Can EPUB files be converted to EPUB 3
automatically?
All suggestion and shared experiences are welcome.
--
Regards,
Sociohack
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB3I'm not familiar with Calibre on Windows, but on Mac OS/X and Linux, it can be used as a command-line tool, so these conversions could easily be scripted. Antony.
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On Friday 02 November 2018 at 16:43:38, Travis Siegel wrote: I've never heard of epub3. If the files are already epub, why do you need to convert them to anything else? Epub files are perfectly accessible all by themselves.
But, to answer your question, as far as I know, it is relatively easy to get calibre to convert to any format you like by default. Just set the epub3 to your default format, then any file you copy into it's startup folder will automaticlaly be converted into epub3. It's been quite a while since I've played around with calibre, so I don't know the exact steps for setting formats and automatic conversions and such, but it is possible, and folks do this sort of thing all the time.
On 11/2/2018 3:49 AM, Sociohack AC wrote:
Hello group! An NGO in my locality provides visually impaired people with free newspapers in EPUB3 format. They use a software called Calibre to download the newspaper and convert it to EPUB, it then has to be converted to EPUB3. It is her they face difficulty, they have to do it manually and they don't have the adequate staff. Can this process be automated? Can EPUB files be converted to EPUB 3 automatically?
All suggestion and shared experiences are welcome.
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Hello,
Yes, Calibre can be used from a command line in Windows as well.
Ciao,
Ollie
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Il 02/11/2018 16:52, Antony Stone ha scritto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB3
I'm not familiar with Calibre on Windows, but on Mac OS/X and Linux, it can be used as a command-line tool, so these conversions could easily be scripted.
Antony.
On Friday 02 November 2018 at 16:43:38, Travis Siegel wrote:
I've never heard of epub3. If the files are already epub, why do you need to convert them to anything else? Epub files are perfectly accessible all by themselves.
But, to answer your question, as far as I know, it is relatively easy to get calibre to convert to any format you like by default. Just set the epub3 to your default format, then any file you copy into it's startup folder will automaticlaly be converted into epub3. It's been quite a while since I've played around with calibre, so I don't know the exact steps for setting formats and automatic conversions and such, but it is possible, and folks do this sort of thing all the time.
On 11/2/2018 3:49 AM, Sociohack AC wrote:
Hello group! An NGO in my locality provides visually impaired people with free newspapers in EPUB3 format. They use a software called Calibre to download the newspaper and convert it to EPUB, it then has to be converted to EPUB3. It is her they face difficulty, they have to do it manually and they don't have the adequate staff. Can this process be automated? Can EPUB files be converted to EPUB 3 automatically?
All suggestion and shared experiences are welcome.
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Travis,
epub3 is a special type of file, where you have audio and text that can be synched, for instance, for dyslexic readers.
I guess that's the reason why one would want to convert epub's to epub3's.
Ciao,
Ollie
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Il 02/11/2018 16:43, Travis Siegel ha scritto: I've never heard of epub3. If the files are already epub, why do you need to convert them to anything else? Epub files are perfectly accessible all by themselves.
But, to answer your question, as far as I know, it is relatively easy to get calibre to convert to any format you like by default. Just set the epub3 to your default format, then any file you copy into it's startup folder will automaticlaly be converted into epub3. It's been quite a while since I've played around with calibre, so I don't know the exact steps for setting formats and automatic conversions and such, but it is possible, and folks do this sort of thing all the time.
On 11/2/2018 3:49 AM, Sociohack AC wrote:
Hello group! An NGO in my locality provides visually impaired people with free newspapers in EPUB3 format. They use a software called Calibre to download the newspaper and convert it to EPUB, it then has to be converted to EPUB3. It is her they face difficulty, they have to do it manually and they don't have the adequate staff. Can this process be automated? Can EPUB files be converted to EPUB 3 automatically?
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So, if you're starting from ePub, which has only text, where do you get the audio from, to "convert" this to ePub 3?
That sounds like more than just a conversion process to me - it's like saying you can convert some (text) song lyrics into a karaoke file. Yes, there's software you can use to do this, but it's way more than just a "conversion".
Antony.
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On Friday 02 November 2018 at 18:12:43, Mallard wrote: Travis,
epub3 is a special type of file, where you have audio and text that can be synched, for instance, for dyslexic readers.
I guess that's the reason why one would want to convert epub's to epub3's.
Ciao,
Ollie
Il 02/11/2018 16:43, Travis Siegel ha scritto:
I've never heard of epub3. If the files are already epub, why do you need to convert them to anything else? Epub files are perfectly accessible all by themselves.
But, to answer your question, as far as I know, it is relatively easy to get calibre to convert to any format you like by default. Just set the epub3 to your default format, then any file you copy into it's startup folder will automaticlaly be converted into epub3. It's been quite a while since I've played around with calibre, so I don't know the exact steps for setting formats and automatic conversions and such, but it is possible, and folks do this sort of thing all the time.
On 11/2/2018 3:49 AM, Sociohack AC wrote:
Hello group! An NGO in my locality provides visually impaired people with free newspapers in EPUB3 format. They use a software called Calibre to download the newspaper and convert it to EPUB, it then has to be converted to EPUB3. It is her they face difficulty, they have to do it manually and they don't have the adequate staff. Can this process be automated? Can EPUB files be converted to EPUB 3 automatically?
All suggestion and shared experiences are welcome.
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Actually, I've never heard of teh possibility to convert epub to epub3, but maybe it's possible with a specific software, which would add audio from a synth. The problem, though, is that it should be synced as well.
But I have no idea how you do that.
Also because epub3 files are usually huge...
Now I'm curious, and I'll start searching to see if this is possible at all.
Ciao,
Ollie
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Il 02/11/2018 22:28, Antony Stone ha scritto: So, if you're starting from ePub, which has only text, where do you get the audio from, to "convert" this to ePub 3?
That sounds like more than just a conversion process to me - it's like saying you can convert some (text) song lyrics into a karaoke file. Yes, there's software you can use to do this, but it's way more than just a "conversion".
Antony.
On Friday 02 November 2018 at 18:12:43, Mallard wrote:
Travis,
epub3 is a special type of file, where you have audio and text that can be synched, for instance, for dyslexic readers.
I guess that's the reason why one would want to convert epub's to epub3's.
Ciao,
Ollie
Il 02/11/2018 16:43, Travis Siegel ha scritto:
I've never heard of epub3. If the files are already epub, why do you need to convert them to anything else? Epub files are perfectly accessible all by themselves.
But, to answer your question, as far as I know, it is relatively easy to get calibre to convert to any format you like by default. Just set the epub3 to your default format, then any file you copy into it's startup folder will automaticlaly be converted into epub3. It's been quite a while since I've played around with calibre, so I don't know the exact steps for setting formats and automatic conversions and such, but it is possible, and folks do this sort of thing all the time.
On 11/2/2018 3:49 AM, Sociohack AC wrote:
Hello group! An NGO in my locality provides visually impaired people with free newspapers in EPUB3 format. They use a software called Calibre to download the newspaper and convert it to EPUB, it then has to be converted to EPUB3. It is her they face difficulty, they have to do it manually and they don't have the adequate staff. Can this process be automated? Can EPUB files be converted to EPUB 3 automatically?
All suggestion and shared experiences are welcome.
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