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EPUB to Text Converter

Read an EPUB as plain text — chapter by chapter, in reading order.

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Drop an .epub here, or click to choose one

Read on your device — the book is never uploaded

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Quick Tool Overview

The EPUB to Text Converter reads a book’s chapters in spine order, strips the markup, and hands back plain text with the title, author and reading time.

What it does
Extracts the text of an EPUB book
You give it
A DRM-free .epub file
You get back
Plain text, chapter by chapter
Best for
Searching, quoting and reading anywhere
Converters Free, unlimited use No sign-up Runs in your browser

About the EPUB to Text Converter

An EPUB is a zip of XHTML files with a manifest describing the order they are read in. That makes it a fine format for e-readers and a difficult one for anything else — searching a book, quoting from it, running it through a tool, or reading it on a device with no e-reader.

Drop the book here and its text comes out in reading order, taken from the spine rather than from whatever order the files happen to sit in. Chapter headings can be marked, the title and author placed at the top, and a single chapter picked out rather than the whole book. Word count and reading time come with it. It all happens in your browser, which matters when the EPUB is a manuscript rather than a published book.

Key features of the EPUB to Text Converter

Real reading order

Chapters come from the book’s spine, not the file order.

One chapter or all

Every chapter is listed by its heading.

Metadata included

Title, author and language from the book itself.

Reading time

Word count and an estimate for the whole text.

Private

Unzipped in your browser — safe for a manuscript.

How to use the EPUB to Text Converter

  1. 1

    Drop the .epub in

    Read on your device — nothing is uploaded.

  2. 2

    Choose a chapter, or the lot

    Chapters are listed in reading order.

  3. 3

    Decide on the headings

    Mark where each chapter starts, or run it together.

  4. 4

    Copy or download the text

    Plain .txt, named after the book.

Frequently asked questions

Usually not. Shop-bought books carry DRM, which encrypts the text. Only DRM-free EPUBs — Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks, most self-published files — can be read.

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