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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: Something I Never Fucking Knew
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 06:20:05 -0000 (UTC)
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Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote at 21:07 this Friday (GMT):
> I have fucking THOUSANDS, nay TENS of THOUSANDS, of fucking
> e-books.
>
> Most are PDF.  Some are DJVU.  Some are EPUB.
>
> I was perusing an EBUB and I wondered how I could extract the
> images from this e-book format.  A quick search brought me this:
>
> "Any non-DRM'ed epub ebook is just a renamed zipped folder. All
> you'll need to do is rename the file from <filename>.epub to
><filename>.zip and unzip the folder. At that point, you should
> be able to navigate within the folders to find the images and
> do whatever you like with them."
>
> https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/1286/how-can-i-extract-all-the-pictures-from-an-ebook
>
> Well how about that?  Another zipped directory disguised as
> a bona fide format.

Well, it's a common technique. I've seen plenty of "fake file
extensions" that just use an existing format. Of course, you can easily
tell by looking at the magic number on the file.

> Of course, GNU/Linux has the tools to extract images from ANY
> file format.

Oh cool, what tool?

> Can Microshit Winblows claim the same?
>
> Just open your wallet and head for the Winblows "Store."
>
> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
>


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