I couldn’t find a quick and easy way to rename my epubs consistently, so I made something. EpubRenamer does just that and has options to customize it to your liking. I wrote this in java in a couple of hours yesterday. More details at https://pipasoft.com/epubrenamer/ and the source is at https://github.com/brianpipa/epubrenamer
I finally launched https://overreader.com today. I had the idea for it in January of 2015 so it only took me 8 years to get off my @$$ and actually get it done. If you use Goodreads and either Overdrive/Libby or Kindle Unlimited, check it out. (or if you have friends that do, please share).
Another quick little utility I wrote recently. This extracts covers from your epub files and can change the size, greyscale etc. By default it will greyscale and resize them, to work as screensavers for ebook readers.
Sample image from an epub:
I’ve been using Linux Mint as my main home desktop for 11 years now and as of about a month ago I finally got rid of Windows. The two things that were holding me back were gaming and Overdrive ebooks.
Linux gaming has come a LONG way and it now works good enough for me to ditch Windows. I successfully got most games working:
As for Overdrive, I found Knock on github – it will take the downloaded .acsm file and download the epub file. I originally got Adobe Digital Editions installed and it worked, but Knock is much easier. I just put the knock executable into my ~/bin and once I download the .acsm file I run knock on it.
I just finished watching Star Wars Rebels and on a whim, looked up some related some domain names and to my surprise – karabast.com was available! So naturally, I bought it! I tossed a simple page up for now. No definitive plans for it at this point.