Jing Qi

Jing Qi

MS of Computer Engineering in Syracuse University

eBook convert

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  • This is a node.js module and you can download this module with npm:

    npm install ebook-convert

  • Based on the introduction on npm, “this is a wrapper around the command-line tool ebook-convert from Calibre”. I am not very sure if you have to install calibre as a dependency.

  • If everything work well, you can use the module in .js file:

    var path = require('path')
var xtend = require('xtend')
var convert = require('ebook-convert')
   
// see more options at https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/ebook-convert.html
var options = {
  input: '"'+path.join(__dirname, 'Metamorphosis-jackson.mobi')+'"', 
  output: '"'+path.join(__dirname, 'Metamorphosis-jackson.epub')+'"',
  authors: '"Seth Vincent"',
  pageBreaksBefore: '//h:h1',
  chapter: '//h:h1',
  insertBlankLine: true,
  insertBlankLineSize: '1',
  lineHeight: '12',
  marginTop: '50',
  marginRight: '50',
  marginBottom: '50',
  marginLeft: '50'
}
   
/*
* create epub file
*/
convert(options, function (err) {
  if (err) console.log(err)
})

  • And you can use it in command line interface, a ref is here:

    ebook-convert input_file output_file [options]