[GRLUG] ebook identification

[Nick Reid]

On 06/24/2011 10:11 AM, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 09:33:09AM -0400, Benjamin Flanders wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 9:17 AM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:50:32AM -0400, Benjamin Flanders wrote:
>>>> Not totally Linux related, but I thought one of you might know.  Is
>>>> there a program for ebook identification?  I'm thinking along the
>>>> lines of Musicbrainz PUID audio signature, but for books.  I would
>>>> think it would be easier for ebooks than music since there is no
>>>> compression and a word is a word, but I am coming up with nothing on
>>>> Google. I keep coming up with e-books about fuzzy logic, isbns, tree
>>>> identification, signature analysis, and fingerprinting.
>>> Wait.  ebooks aren't compressed?  Isn't plain text about the most
>>> compressible thing around, and lossless at that?  This surprises me.
>> I guess I should have not used the word "compressed".  I was going for
>> the term lossless and had a brain bump.  Sorry.
> Whew.  I thought the world had gone mad.
>
>> Anyway, I would have thought the application would have been out there
>> already .
> Do ebooks have internal flags like .ogg & .mp3?
Actually epubs are zip files.. i got a non-drm'd epub that linux showed
up as associated with archive viewer.
renamed it to *.zip and try zip against it.. seems to work.

as for internal flags.. epubs have xml files that dictate files and such
along with html like formatting from what i have see per that above
mentioned epub.

---just my .02

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