How do I convert a text file to the EPUB format?
Happened upon this thread many moons later.
Just liked to point out there is a command line tool Calibre uses to convert. It's called (surprise, surprise) ebook-convert. See 'ebook-convert -h' or 'ebook-convert dummy.html .epub -h' to see conversion options for converting html to epub.
Haven't explored it though. I am most curious about --list-recipes (and if it works), it looks as somethings interesting.
I'd say, Calibre is for you. It works on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
Input Formats: CBZ, CBR, CBC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, LIT, MOBI, ODT, PDF, PRC**, PDB, PML, RB, RTF, TXT
Output Formats: EPUB, FB2, OEB, LIT, LRF, MOBI, PDB, PML, RB, PDF, TXT
For the Mac OS X and Windows, I have had success with Stanza for Desktop.
This supports a good range of export formats.
More importantly, it copes very well with
- detecting chapters in large text files.
- unicode, including "significant" characters like < and &.
There are online tools to convert to epub files.
Example of such a website here.
If you have a MacOS X 10.6 machine, try this:
http://padilicious.com/epub/index.html
It relies on Automator