Is it possible to read epub file without unzipping in iOS

940 Views Asked by Swati At 03 April 2025 at 07:02

I have an epub file saved with me in documents directory. Can anybody suggest me a way to read the data and chapters without unzipping the file.

I know its possible in Android so there must be a way out for apple too.

Can anybody throw some light on this.

Thank you!!

There are 2 best solutions below

Swati On 05 December 2013 at 07:54 BEST ANSWER

Got the link which helped me :

Thanks to : Ben Swanson & Petesh :)

Mutawe On 02 December 2013 at 09:03

An .epub file is just a .zip file. It contains a few directory files in XML format and the actual book content is usually XHTML.

As a walk around, try to access the META-INF/container.xml, if you did it, you can read it without any unzipping