Convert an ePub to Markdown or HTML
An ePub is a ZIP of web pages. This unpacks it, follows the book’s own reading order, and hands you the text in a form you can quote, search or edit.
- Runs entirely in your browser
- Works offline
- No upload
- No sign-up
- No watermark
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How it works
- Drop the .epub file.
- Choose Markdown (text only) or HTML (one file, images embedded).
- Convert, preview, and download.
Why nothing is uploaded
Every operation on this page is done by code running inside your browser tab, using the same engine that renders web pages. The file is read from disk into your tab’s memory, transformed there, and written back out as a download. It is never sent anywhere — not to us, not to a third party.
Verify it yourself
- Open your browser’s developer tools (F12) and select the Network tab.
- Load your file and run the tool.
- The only requests you will see fetch the tool’s own code — and, for a few heavy tools, their open-source engine from a public CDN — plus one small page-view ping to loreatec.jp (page address and title, nothing more). None of them carry your file.
Frequently asked questions
Does it work with books I bought from Kindle or Kobo?
Only if they have no copy protection (DRM). A protected file is encrypted, and this tool tells you so instead of producing garbage. Removing DRM is not something this site does — some stores let you export an unprotected copy, and DRM-free publishers exist precisely for this.
Markdown or HTML — which should I take?
Markdown if the destination is a notes app, a wiki or an editor: plain text, no images. HTML if you want one self-contained readable file with the pictures in place — it opens in any browser and prints decently.
Is the chapter order preserved?
Yes — the tool follows the book’s spine, the reading order declared inside the ePub itself, not the alphabetical order of the internal files, which is how naive extractors shuffle chapters.
What happens to footnotes and styling?
Text and structure survive: headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, emphasis. The publisher’s fonts, colours and page styling are deliberately dropped — that is most of what makes converted ebooks unreadable elsewhere.