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ebook-converter
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gryf / ebook-converter

ebook-converter

Commandline tool for converting between several e-books formats, based on Calibre project.

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What it is

Commandline tool for converting between several e-books formats, based on Calibre project.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2023-09-05 06:27:24 UTC to 2024-01-14 12:35:20 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012023-09-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 42023-09-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-10-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-10-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-10-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-10-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-10-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-11-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsNov 62023-11-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-11-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-11-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-12-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-12-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-12-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-12-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 8

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Sep 42023-09-04 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-11 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 112023-09-11 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 182023-09-18 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 252023-09-25 00:00:00 UTC2023-10-02 00:00:00 UTC000
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Oct 302023-10-30 00:00:00 UTC2023-11-06 00:00:00 UTC000
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Nov 132023-11-13 00:00:00 UTC2023-11-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 202023-11-20 00:00:00 UTC2023-11-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 272023-11-27 00:00:00 UTC2023-12-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 42023-12-04 00:00:00 UTC2023-12-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 112023-12-11 00:00:00 UTC2023-12-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 182023-12-18 00:00:00 UTC2023-12-25 00:00:00 UTC000
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Jan 12024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 82024-01-08 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-15 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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ninjin·Jan 14, 2024
Indeed it does. I know that I am not entitled to dictate Calibre's direction, but it would be nice if these tools were cleanly broken out with minimal dependencies. If I recall correctly, the Calibre developers are not interested in this and have stated it explicitly and the only real alternative I have heard of is ebook-converter [1] which simply lifted the relevant portions of code out of Calibre. [1]: https://github.com/gryf/ebook-converter
In Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app
gryf73·Sep 5, 2023
There was a time, when I was so fed up of the Calibre being so bloated, while all I needed was just a convert capabilities, that I started to rip off parts of the Calibre, clean it up, make things simpler, removing unnecessary things and trying to understand what is happening behind the conversion, resulting with ebook-converter[1], which simply do the conversion, without all the management/downloading rss/editing/what have you. It is usable right now, but I'd say it's still somewhere in between alpha and beta stage. You could give it a shot. [1] https://github.com/gryf/ebook-converter
In Calibre replacement considerations (2019)

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