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disclaimer: I'm still relatively new to Emacs.

When I open an Epub on MS Windows, Emacs opens it using Zip-Archive mode and displays its content (which is normal afaik).

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However, when I start nov-mode, encoded characters are displayed and I got an error of Wrong type argument: stringp, nil in the minibuffer.

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What should I do? Where should I look?

EDIT You can find sources of nov here

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  • Please add a reference (with link) to something that describes `nov-mode`. Please turn on `debug-on-error` and show the backtrace you get. Preferably load the relevant source file first, so the backtrace is more detailed/clear. – Drew Aug 30 '19 at 16:55
  • The most common issue Windows users reported to me is that they haven't customized `nov-unzip-program` to the location of an `unzip` executable. – wasamasa Sep 01 '19 at 08:40

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Two things were actually missing: - libxml2 dependency - proper setting of nov-unzip-program

I could add libxml2 the easy way by going to Emacs FTP, download the dependencies, and apply them in my Emacs installation directory.

For the set of nov-unzip-program I had to download Unzip for Windows, and set the path in init.el: (setq nov-unzip-program "C:\\My\\Path\\To\\unzip.exe")

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