pruss
04-03-2009, 12:05 PM
A pity that there is no epub-capable reader for PalmOS. But if you don't mind dealing with a commandline based perl script, you can convert from epub to Plucker. http://pruss.mobi/epub2plucker.zip
You need to edit the beginning of the script to point to your Plucker parser (unless you're using Windows and just installed it in the default place). Then:
perl epub2plucker.pl file.epub "Title for Plucker"
You can omit "Title for Plucker"--it will then use whatever title it finds in the epub file. (Personally, I like my Plucker files to have titles of the form "Lastnameofauthor: Title", so I don't want to use the ones from the epub file.) And it will generate file.pdb. If it works. (It's not heavily tested.)
You may need to install some perl packages (XML::Simple comes to mind), and maybe a commandline unzip if you don't have one. I wrote this for myself, and I have no talent for making something like this any more user friendly.
Oh, and the script is public domain. Do what you like with it.
You need to edit the beginning of the script to point to your Plucker parser (unless you're using Windows and just installed it in the default place). Then:
perl epub2plucker.pl file.epub "Title for Plucker"
You can omit "Title for Plucker"--it will then use whatever title it finds in the epub file. (Personally, I like my Plucker files to have titles of the form "Lastnameofauthor: Title", so I don't want to use the ones from the epub file.) And it will generate file.pdb. If it works. (It's not heavily tested.)
You may need to install some perl packages (XML::Simple comes to mind), and maybe a commandline unzip if you don't have one. I wrote this for myself, and I have no talent for making something like this any more user friendly.
Oh, and the script is public domain. Do what you like with it.