Greg, thanks for this!
for some personal tastes/usage cases, this, using pandoc's `-t` option, might be minor-ly simpler: ---- man --local-file --pager 'less -ir' \ <(pandoc --standalone -t man \ 2015.31233.Arab-Geographers-Knowledge-Of-Southern-India.epub) | less ---- and, this deserves to be somewhere like fortune: "I already know and love less.". :) maybe "fortune-mod-fles-pleh"? :) cheers, Greg