EPUB to Markdown: Getting Books Into Obsidian, Git and Your LLM Pipeline
Ebooks are strangely locked away. The text is right there (an EPUB is literally a ZIP of XHTML files), yet it lives inside reader apps that don't talk to the rest of your tools. You can't grep it, diff it, link it from your notes, or chunk it for a retrieval pipeline without some glue. Markdown is the glue. Once a book is a .md file, it drops into the plain-text ecosystem: Obsidian vaults, Notion…
Ebooks are difficult to integrate with other tools because the text is locked inside reader apps that don't communicate with other applications. To make ebooks more accessible, converting them to Markdown is the answer. Once an ebook is a Markdown file, it can be used in various tools such as Obsidian vaults, Notion imports, static-site generators, Git repositories, and text-eating scripts.
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