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EPUB to Markdown

Drop an .epub and get the whole book as Markdown — chapters in true reading order, cleanly converted. It runs in your browser, so the file is never uploaded.

Runs in your browser. Your input is not uploaded to PayloadIQ.

The whole book, in the right order

Under the hood an EPUB is a zip of XHTML files plus a manifest. This converter opens that package, reads the spine — the book's declared reading order — and converts each chapter through the same clean HTML-to-Markdown step used across these tools. The result is one Markdown document, chapters in sequence, with the book title on top.

Why Markdown is the format for long-document AI

Feeding a book to an AI means giving it plain, linear text it can move through — not a styled, zipped container. Markdown strips the packaging and keeps the structure, so the book is ready for summarizing, chapter-by-chapter retrieval, or a question-answering index, without the token overhead of the original markup.

Private and free

The book is processed entirely on your device. Copy the Markdown or download a .md file — your library stays yours.

FAQ

Is my e-book uploaded?
No. The EPUB is unzipped and read in your browser. The file stays on your device — nothing is sent to a server.
How does it order the chapters?
An EPUB lists its real reading order in a 'spine'. The converter follows that spine rather than the file names, so chapters come out in the order the author intended, separated by horizontal rules.
Why convert an EPUB to Markdown for AI?
An EPUB is a zipped bundle of XHTML and styling a model can't open. Markdown gives you the whole book as clean, linear text — exactly what you want for summarizing, search, or building a retrieval index over a long document.
Does it handle DRM-protected books?
No. Books locked with DRM are encrypted and can't be read by any in-browser tool. This works with standard, unprotected .epub files.

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