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Epub to text is very easy and Pandoc can do it. I end up using lynx -dump because that's faster though.
Technically, epub is basically a wepage and thus everything but easy.
You could just strip out the content with a big regex. Surely nothing could go wrong with ̴̬̮̳͔̬̹͖̩͍̄̈̓̀͋̀̎̊̈́̑͛͊̕t̶̘͇̺̠̗̓̿̆̓͋͗́͑͆̈́̈́͊̉̈̍̚ͅḥ̷̡̛͓̹͕̞͎̃͂̽͠ͅã̸͈̟̩̫̪̣̳̜̑̈́̓͗͘t̴̡̮̹͌́̄̔̂́̒͑͘.
You can unzip an epub and find out. Ive done it a couple of times to remove some images from books.
unzip book.epubLast time someone told me I could find out if I would just unzip it didn’t go so well…