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spread0r

spread0r is a txt reader, which makes your reading twice as fast as usual

Installation

spread0r should run on all platforms supporting perl and gtk2-perl. Just clone into the github repo or download a snapshot of: spread0r github repo

After installing perl and gtk2-perl you can start it by double clicking spread0r.pl or running it in terminal like:

./spread0r.pl

Dependencies on ArchLinux

pacman -S gtk2-perl

Dependencies on Fedora

yum install perl-Gtk2

Dependencies on OSX

Preparation:

Install and setup X11
Install and setup Homebrew

Setup

Install glib/Pango/Gtk2 with Homebrew

brew install glib pango gtk+

Add X11 Package Config Path to bashrc

add: export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/opt/X11/lib/pkgconfig

Local Perl CPAN Setup

perl -MCPAN -e shell
follow setup
$ echo '[ $SHLVL -eq 1 ] && eval "$(perl -I$HOME/foo/lib/perl5 -Mlocal::lib=$HOME/foo)"' >>~/.bashrc

Install Perl modules

perl -MCPAN -e shell
perl> install Glib
perl> install Cairo
perl> install Pango
perl> install Gtk2

have fun with spread0r

Dependencies on Windows

Disclaimer:

This section does not come with any warranty, whatsoever. The following steps are copied from this tutorial.

Preparation:

Install Perl
Install GTK for windows

Setup

Open a Command shell
run ppm repo add http://www.sisyphusion.tk/ppm
run ppm install Gtk2 --force

Converting ebooks

Ebook-tools

Using ebook-tools and html2text you can convert your .epubs (or any other format supported by ebook-tools) into a .txt file using this command: einfo -p input_book.epub | html2text | sed -r "s/<[^>]+>//g" > blackout.txt

Calibre

Using Calibre you can convert your .epubs (or any other format supported by calibre) into a .txt file, which can be used by spread0r. To do this, you've got two options:

use the calibre GUI
use the commandline tool "ebook-convert" of calibre installation

Open a terminal
run ebook-convert input_ebook.epub output_ebook.txt

Converting PDFs

Poppler

On Linux you can use pdftotext from Poppler:

$ pdftotext file.pdf