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* Reading books with org-mode
@ 2013-07-29 20:24 Kyle Sexton
  2013-07-31 12:09 ` Christian Wittern
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Kyle Sexton @ 2013-07-29 20:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Just wanted to share a tip I've been using that is pretty nice.  Convert
any epub/mobi technical books you are reading to org-mode files and read
them in Emacs.  Then you can do nice things like easily cut and paste
portions of the book to org-drill for flash cards or into capture
templates.

The conversion process is different for every book (imagine that), but
not too horrible.  Basically, Calibre -> htmlz -> unzip -> pandoc:

#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
$ cp ~/Calibre\ Library/Metz*/Practi*/*.htmlz ./book.htmlz
$ unzip -q book.htmlz 
$ pandoc ./index.html -o book.org       
#+END_EXAMPLE

After that I usually have to global convert [[image/foo.png]] to
[[file:image/foo.png]] and add inlineimages to a start-up option on the
file.

--
Kyle Sexton

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