From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kyle Sexton Subject: Reading books with org-mode Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 15:24:28 -0500 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44514) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V3tzk-0003OF-6i for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:24:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V3tzd-0005tD-Tu for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:24:40 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f44.google.com ([209.85.160.44]:51815) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V3tzd-0005t3-Mh for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:24:33 -0400 Received: by mail-pb0-f44.google.com with SMTP id wy7so5078284pbc.3 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:24:32 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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