CentOS - Jan 2010 - reading -- and editing -- ebooks

Last week I bought a couple books, not ebooks.  I considered buying the
ebook, but don't want to need a special device/appliance to read it.
I'd much prefer to read ebooks on the Linux (CentOS) machine I'm already
using.

Also, I'd like to be able to programmatically convert the ebook into a
format I can edit myself, e.g., HTML.

I have no experience owning or purchasing ebooks.  Could people who have
clue me in on how they work and if the above is possible.


Thanks much.


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On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 07:44 -0500, ken wrote:
> I considered buying the
> ebook, but don't want to need a special device/appliance to read it.
http://www.fbreader.org/

I use this all the time and am very happy with it.

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