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> At the end of the day, isn't an ebook basically a fancy zip with some markup inside...? That's what epubs are, plain old zip files with some xhtml, CSS, etc.
by liability 6y ago
> At the end of the day, isn't an ebook basically a fancy zip with some markup inside...?
That's what epubs are, plain old zip files with some xhtml, CSS, etc. You can unzip them using standard utilities. Mobi files aren't zips, but the premise is roughly the same and conversion between the two is usually seamless.
- Turing_Machine 6y agoIt's almost, but not quite "plain". You have to make sure that the mimetype file is the very first file in the zip, and that the mimetype file is uncompressed. Otherwise the epub will fail validation and will not work on many readers. So yeah, you can unzip them with any standard zip utility, but zipping them back up requires some care.