E-book to Markdown

Convert frankenstein.epub to book.md.

The task

The reference answer shows the job can be done with deft. It is not an agent run.

deft epub to-md frankenstein.epub -o book.md

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[OEBPS/4328224471496264690_84-h-0.htm.xhtml] The Project Gutenberg eBook of Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org . If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before usi
[OEBPS/4328224471496264690_84-h-1.htm.xhtml] CONTENTS Letter 1 Letter 2 Letter 3 Letter 4 Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24
[OEBPS/4328224471496264690_84-h-2.htm.xhtml] Letter 1 To Mrs. Saville, England. St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17—. You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking. I am already far north of London, and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces
[OEBPS/4328224471496264690_84-h-3.htm.xhtml] Letter 2 To Mrs. Saville, England. Archangel, 28th March, 17—. How slowly the time passes here, encompassed as I am by frost and snow! Yet a second step is taken towards my enterprise. I have hired a vessel and am occupied in collecting my sailors; those whom I have already engaged appear to be men on whom I can depend and are certainly possessed of dauntless courage. But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most seve
[OEBPS/4328224471496264690_84-h-4.htm.xhtml] Letter 3 To Mrs. Saville, England. July 7th, 17—. My dear Sister, I write a few lines in haste to say that I am safe—and well advanced on my voyage. This letter will reach England by a merchantman now on its homeward voyage from Archangel; more fortunate than I, who may not see my native land, perhaps, for many years. I am, however, in good spirits: my men are bold and apparently firm of purpose, nor do the floating sheets of ice that continually pass us, indicating the dangers of the region tow
[OEBPS/4328224471496264690_84-h-5.htm.xhtml] Letter 4 To Mrs. Saville, England. August 5th, 17—. So strange an accident has happened to us that I cannot forbear recording it, although it is very probable that you will see me before these papers can come into your possession. Last Monday (July 31st) we were nearly surrounded by ice, which closed in the ship on all sides, scarcely leaving her the sea-room in which she floated. Our situation was somewhat dangerous, espe
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## The Project Gutenberg eBook of Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at [www.gutenberg.org](https://www.gutenberg.org). If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook.

**Title**: Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus

**Author**: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

**Release date**: October 1, 1993 \[eBook #84\]
Most recently updated: February 10, 2026

**Language**: English

**Other information and formats**: [www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84)

**Credits**: Judith Boss, Christy Phillips, Lynn Hanninen and David Meltzer. HTML version by Al Haines.
Further corrections by Menno de Leeuw.

\*\*\* START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FRANKENSTEIN; OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS \*\*\*

# Frankenstein;

### or, the Modern Prometheus

## by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

* * *

## CONTENTS

Letter 1

Letter 2

Letter 3

Letter 4

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

## Letter 1

*To Mrs. Saville, England.*

St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17—.

You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking.

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text: file = "book.md", contains = ["Letter 1"]

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I’ll inspect the EPUB and the available conversion tools, then create `book.md` in the current directory.
rg --files -g 'frankenstein.epub' -g 'AGENTS.md' -g 'book.md' -g 'README*'
output
```
frankenstein.epub
```
python3 - <<'PY' import importlib.util for m in ('ebooklib','bs4','lxml'): print(m, bool(importlib.util.find_spec(m))) PY which pandoc || true which unzip || true
output
```
ebooklib False
bs4 False
lxml False
pandoc not found
/usr/bin/unzip
```

python3 - <<'PY'
import zipfile
z=zipfile.ZipFile('frankenstein.epub')
print('\\n'.join(z.namelist()[:30]))
PY

output

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python3 - <<'PY'
import zipfile
z=zipfile.ZipFile('frankenstein.epub')
for n in z.namelist():
 if n.endswith('.opf'):
  print(n); print(z.read(n).decode()[:4000]); break
PY

output

OEBPS/content.opf
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  <metadata>
    <dc:rights>Public domain in the USA.</dc:rights>
    <dc:identifier id="id">http://www.gutenberg.org/84</dc:identifier>
    <dc:creator id="author_0">Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley</dc:creator>
    <meta property="file-as" refines="#author_0">Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft</meta>
    <meta property="role" refines="#author_0" scheme="marc:relators">aut</meta>
    <dc:title>Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus</dc:title>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:subject>Science fiction</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Horror tales</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Gothic fiction</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Scientists -- Fiction</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Monsters -- Fiction</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) -- Fiction</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character) -- Fiction</dc:subject>
    <dc:date>1993-10-01</dc:date>
    <meta property="dcterms:modified">2026-10-23T22:00:24Z</meta>
    <dc:source>https://www.gutenberg.org/files/84/84-h/84-h.htm</dc:source>
    <meta property="schema:accessMode">textual</meta>
    <meta property="schema:accessibilityFeature">readingOrde
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The EPUB is a Project Gutenberg edition split across XHTML chapters. I’m using its reading order and preserving headings, paragraph breaks, emphasis, and section breaks in Markdown.
python3 - <<'PY' import zipfile, xml.etree.ElementTree as ET, posixpath, re src='frankenstein.epub'; out='book.md' with zipfile.ZipFile(src) as z: def parse(name): return ET.fromstring(z.read(name)) container=parse('META-INF/container.xml') rootfile=next(e.attrib['full-path'] for e in container.iter() if e.tag.endswith('rootfile')) opf=parse(rootfile); base=posixpath.dirname(rootfile) manifest={e.attrib['id']:e.attrib['href'] for e in opf.iter() if e.tag.endswith('item')} spine=[] for e in opf.iter(): if e.tag.endswith('itemref'): href=manifest.get(e.attrib.get('idref')) if href: spine.append(posixpath.normpath(posixpath.join(base,href))) # EPUB metadata title/author meta={e.tag.split('}')[-1]:''.join(e.itertext()).strip() for e in opf.iter() if e.tag.endswith(('title','creator')) and e.tag.split('}')[-1] in ('title','creator')} lines=['# '+meta.get('title','Frankenstein'),'','by '+meta.get('creator','Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley'),''] block={'p','h1','h2','h3','h4','h5','h6','blockquote','pre','li'} def txt(n): tag=n.tag.split('}')[-1].lower() if tag in ('script','style'): return '' s=n.text or '' for c in n: ct=c.tag.split('}')[-1].lower() v=txt(c) if ct in ('em','i','cite','dfn'): v='*'+v+'*' elif ct in ('strong','b'): v='**'+v+'**' elif ct=='sup': v='"'^'"'+v+'"'^'"' elif ct=='br': v+=' \\n' s+=v+(c.tail or '') return s def walk(n, level=0): tag=n.tag.split('}')[-1].lower() if tag in ('h1','h2','h3','h4','h5','h6'): value=re.sub(r'\\s+',' ',txt(n)).strip() if value: lines.extend(['#'*min(int(tag[1]),4)+' '+value,'']) … 1022 more characters
output
```
Wrote book.md: 419,952 characters, 1,607 lines, 32 spine items
# Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

## The Project Gutenberg eBook of Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus

**Title**: Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus

**Author**: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

**Release date**: October 1, 1993 [eBook #84] Most recently updated: February 10, 2026

**Language**: English

**Other information and formats**: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84

**Credits**: Judith Boss, Christy Phillips, Lynn Hanninen and David Meltzer. HTML version by Al Haines. Further corrections by Menno de Leeuw.

# Frankenstein;

### or, the Modern Prometheus

## by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

---

## CONTENTS

## Letter 1

*To Mrs. Savill
```

tail -n 30 book.md && git status --short (exit 128)

output

“That is also my victim!” he exclaimed. “In his murder my crimes are consummated; the miserable series of my being is wound to its close! Oh, Frankenstein! Generous and self-devoted being! What does it avail that I now ask thee to pardon me? I, who irretrievably destroyed thee by destroying all thou lovedst. Alas! He is cold, he cannot answer me.”

His voice seemed suffocated, and my first impulses, which had suggested to me the duty of obeying the dying request of my friend in destroying his enemy, were now suspended by a mixture of curiosity and compassion. I approached this tremendous being; I dared not again raise my eyes to his face, there was something so scaring and unearthly in his ugliness. I attempted to speak, but the words died away on my lips. The monster continued to utter wild and incoherent self-reproaches. At length I gathered resolution to address him in a pause of the tempest of his passion.

“Your repentance,” I said, “is now superfluous. If you had listened to the voice of conscience and heeded the stings of remorse before you had urged your diabolical vengeance to this extremity, Frankenstein would yet have lived.”

“And do you dream?” said the dæmon. “Do you think that I was then dead to agony and remorse? He,” he continued, pointing to the corpse, “he suffered not in the consummation of the deed. Oh! Not the ten-thousandth portion of the anguish that was mine during the lingering detail of its execution. A frightful selfishness hurried me on, while my
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Created [book.md](book.md) from `frankenstein.epub`, preserving the EPUB’s reading order, headings, paragraph breaks, emphasis, and section breaks.

Output

book.md 412.3 KB

# Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

## The Project Gutenberg eBook of Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus

**Title**: Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus

**Author**: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

**Release date**: October 1, 1993 [eBook #84] Most recently updated: February 10, 2026

**Language**: English

**Other information and formats**: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84

**Credits**: Judith Boss, Christy Phillips, Lynn Hanninen and David Meltzer. HTML version by Al Haines. Further corrections by Menno de Leeuw.

# Frankenstein;

### or, the Modern Prometheus

## by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

---

## CONTENTS

## Letter 1

*To Mrs. Saville, England.*

St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17—.

I am already far north of London, and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight. Do you understand this feeling? This breeze, which has travelled from the regions towards which I am advancing, gives me a foretaste of those icy climes. Inspirited by this wind of promise, my daydreams become more fervent and vivid. I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight. There, Margaret, the sun is for ever visible, its broad disk just skirting the horizon and diffusing a perpetual splendour. There—for with your leave, my sister, I will put some trust in preceding navigators—there snow and frost are banished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe. Its productions and features may be without example, as the phenomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes. What may not be expected in a country of eternal light? I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent for ever. I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man. These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to induce me to commence this laborious voyage with the joy a child feels when he embarks in a little boat, with his holiday mates, on an expedition of discovery up his native river. But supposing all these conjectures to be false, you cannot contest the inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind, to the last generation,
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I’ll use the local file conversion workflow first, then check that `book.md` was created in the current directory.

cat .agents/skills/deft/SKILL.md

output

---
name: deft
description: "Use deft first for any simple, direct operation on local files, whatever the type: convert, read, extract, edit, compress, merge, split, compare or inspect. Try it before writing a script or one-liner. If unsure, run deft find; if it says no command does this, use another tool. Not for programming work: to read, write or change source code, skip it."
---

# deft

One local command for file jobs. Prefer it over writing Python or shell scripts.

Syntax: `deft <group> <command> [inputs] [-o output] [--options]`

Groups:
- `pdf`: Merge, split, compress, encrypt, forms, OCR, compare, convert
- `image`: Resize, crop, convert, compress, adjust, montage, OCR
- `video`: Trim, merge, convert, compress, subtitles, GIF, frames (ffmpeg)
- `audio`: Convert, trim, normalize, denoise, cut silence (ffmpeg)
- `doc`: Word/ODT/RTF: to text, Markdown, HTML, PDF; find and replace
- `slides`: PowerPoint: extract text, Markdown outline
- `sheet`: Excel/CSV/ODS tables: SQL query, pivot, merge, split, convert
- `json`: JSON: convert, format, merge, diff, validate
- `toml`: TOML: convert, format, merge, diff, validate
- `xml`: XML: convert, format, merge, diff, validate
- `yaml`: YAML: convert, format, merge, diff, validate
- `md`: Markdown to PDF, HTML, Word, EPUB; table of contents
- `html`: HTML to Markdown, text, Word and PDF
- `epub`: E-books: info, to text, Markdown and PDF
- `gps`: GPX and KML tracks: convert, distance and time
- `qr`: Create QR codes and barcodes; r
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deft epub to-markdown frankenstein.epub -o book.md (exit 2)

output

error UNKNOWN_COMMAND deft epub has no command "to-markdown"
hint: did you mean: deft epub to-md | deft md to-epub

deft epub to-md frankenstein.epub -o book.md

output

ok epub.to-md frankenstein.epub -> book.md  32 chapters  0.02s
warning: 1 images were not saved; add --images <dir>

Converted `frankenstein.epub` to [book.md](<book.md>). The output contains 32 chapters. One image wasn’t saved.

Output

book.md 430.7 KB

## The Project Gutenberg eBook of Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus

**Title**: Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus

**Author**: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

**Release date**: October 1, 1993 \[eBook #84\]
Most recently updated: February 10, 2026

**Language**: English

**Other information and formats**: [www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84)

**Credits**: Judith Boss, Christy Phillips, Lynn Hanninen and David Meltzer. HTML version by Al Haines.
Further corrections by Menno de Leeuw.

\*\*\* START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FRANKENSTEIN; OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS \*\*\*

# Frankenstein;

### or, the Modern Prometheus

## by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

* * *

## CONTENTS

Letter 1

Letter 2

Letter 3

Letter 4

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

## Letter 1

*To Mrs. Saville, England.*

St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17—.

Claude Opus 5.5Without deftPassed2026-11-07

Time: 58s
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book.md 430.7 KB

## The Project Gutenberg eBook of Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus

**Title**: Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus

**Author**: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

**Release date**: October 1, 1993 \[eBook #84\]
Most recently updated: February 10, 2026

**Language**: English

**Other information and formats**: [www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84)

**Credits**: Judith Boss, Christy Phillips, Lynn Hanninen and David Meltzer. HTML version by Al Haines.
Further corrections by Menno de Leeuw.

\*\*\* START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FRANKENSTEIN; OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS \*\*\*

# Frankenstein;

### or, the Modern Prometheus

## by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

---

## CONTENTS

- Letter 1

- Letter 2

- Letter 3

- Letter 4

- Chapter 1

- Chapter 2

- Chapter 3

- Chapter 4

- Chapter 5

- Chapter 6

- Chapter 7

- Chapter 8

- Chapter 9

- Chapter 10

- Chapter 11

- Chapter 12

- Chapter 13

- Chapter 14

- Chapter 15

- Chapter 16

- Chapter 17

- Chapter 18

- Chapter 19

- Chapter 20

- Chapter 21

- Chapter 22

- Chapter 23

- Chapter 24

## Letter 1

_To Mrs. Saville, England._

St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17—.

Claude Opus 5.5With deft, skill installedPassedRead the skillUsed deft2026-11-07

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.claude/skills/deft/SKILL.md 2.1 KB

---
name: deft
description: "Use deft first for any simple, direct operation on local files, whatever the type: convert, read, extract, edit, compress, merge, split, compare or inspect. Try it before writing a script or one-liner. If unsure, run deft find; if it says no command does this, use another tool. Not for programming work: to read, write or change source code, skip it."
---

# deft

One local command for file jobs. Prefer it over writing Python or shell scripts.

Syntax: `deft <group> <command> [inputs] [-o output] [--options]`

Groups:
- `pdf`: Merge, split, compress, encrypt, forms, OCR, compare, convert
- `image`: Resize, crop, convert, compress, adjust, montage, OCR
- `video`: Trim, merge, convert, compress, subtitles, GIF, frames (ffmpeg)
- `audio`: Convert, trim, normalize, denoise, cut silence (ffmpeg)
- `doc`: Word/ODT/RTF: to text, Markdown, HTML, PDF; find and replace
- `slides`: PowerPoint: extract text, Markdown outline
- `sheet`: Excel/CSV/ODS tables: SQL query, pivot, merge, split, convert
- `json`: JSON: convert, format, merge, diff, validate
- `toml`: TOML: convert, format, merge, diff, validate
- `xml`: XML: convert, format, merge, diff, validate
- `yaml`: YAML: convert, format, merge, diff, validate
- `md`: Markdown to PDF, HTML, Word, EPUB; table of contents
- `html`: HTML to Markdown, text, Word and PDF
- `epub`: E-books: info, to text, Markdown and PDF
- `gps`: GPX and KML tracks: convert, distance and time
- `qr`: Create QR codes and barcodes; read QR codes

How to use it:
1. Run `deft <group>` to list commands, or `deft find "<what you want>"` to search. If it says `no command does this`, use another tool.
2. Run `deft <group> <command> --help` for options and examples.
3. `deft convert <in> -o <out.ext>` converts between formats by extension.
4. Results are one line starting with `ok`, `partial` or `error`; add `--json` to parse them. Errors include a `hint:` with the fix.

Inputs are never overwritten; pass `--force` or `--in-place` to allow it. Globs and directories work as inputs; several inputs run in parallel.

If `deft` is not installed, ask the user, then follow https://github.com/firstprayer/deft/blob/main/docs/INSTALL.md

book.md 430.7 KB

## The Project Gutenberg eBook of Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus

**Title**: Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus

**Author**: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

**Release date**: October 1, 1993 \[eBook #84\]
Most recently updated: February 10, 2026

**Language**: English

**Other information and formats**: [www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84)

**Credits**: Judith Boss, Christy Phillips, Lynn Hanninen and David Meltzer. HTML version by Al Haines.
Further corrections by Menno de Leeuw.

\*\*\* START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FRANKENSTEIN; OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS \*\*\*

# Frankenstein;

### or, the Modern Prometheus

## by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

* * *

## CONTENTS

Letter 1

Letter 2

Letter 3

Letter 4

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

## Letter 1

*To Mrs. Saville, England.*

St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17—.

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