diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index c5b9a7a..8753052 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ require (
 	github.com/gordonklaus/portaudio v0.0.0-20250206071425-98a94950218b
 	github.com/jmoiron/sqlx v1.4.0
 	github.com/ledongthuc/pdf v0.0.0-20250511090121-5959a4027728
-	github.com/n3integration/epub v0.2.0
 	github.com/neurosnap/sentences v1.1.2
 	github.com/rivo/tview v0.42.0
 	github.com/yuin/goldmark v1.4.13
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 8fe858e..2e32cfc 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -53,8 +53,6 @@ github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.20 h1:xfD0iDuEKnDkl03q4limB+vH+GxLEtL/jb4xVJSWWE
 github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.20/go.mod h1:W+V8PltTTMOvKvAeJH7IuucS94S2C6jfK/D7dTCTo3Y=
 github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3 v1.14.22 h1:2gZY6PC6kBnID23Tichd1K+Z0oS6nE/XwU+Vz/5o4kU=
 github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3 v1.14.22/go.mod h1:Uh1q+B4BYcTPb+yiD3kU8Ct7aC0hY9fxUwlHK0RXw+Y=
-github.com/n3integration/epub v0.2.0 h1:mJhgjKmAf0BeUvZ3ZsidvQ5P/E6LFdwNEhf+anP5wTg=
-github.com/n3integration/epub v0.2.0/go.mod h1:qaomUgu8jrj09pjpTTY6S8+i225vR4QXJ9VAv0Dy0Ac=
 github.com/ncruces/go-strftime v1.0.0 h1:HMFp8mLCTPp341M/ZnA4qaf7ZlsbTc+miZjCLOFAw7w=
 github.com/ncruces/go-strftime v1.0.0/go.mod h1:Fwc5htZGVVkseilnfgOVb9mKy6w1naJmn9CehxcKcls=
 github.com/neurosnap/sentences v1.1.2 h1:iphYOzx/XckXeBiLIUBkPu2EKMJ+6jDbz/sLJZ7ZoUw=
diff --git a/rag/extractors.go b/rag/extractors.go
index 1cf97af..4255fdb 100644
--- a/rag/extractors.go
+++ b/rag/extractors.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package rag
 
 import (
+	"archive/zip"
 	"bytes"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
@@ -12,7 +13,6 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery"
 	"github.com/ledongthuc/pdf"
-	"github.com/n3integration/epub"
 	"github.com/yuin/goldmark"
 	"github.com/yuin/goldmark/extension"
 	"github.com/yuin/goldmark/parser"
@@ -90,26 +90,46 @@ func extractTextFromMarkdown(fpath string) (string, error) {
 }
 
 func extractTextFromEpub(fpath string) (string, error) {
-	book, err := epub.Open(fpath)
+	r, err := zip.OpenReader(fpath)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("failed to open epub: %w", err)
 	}
-	defer book.Close()
+	defer r.Close()
+
 	var sb strings.Builder
-	err = book.Each(func(title string, xhtml io.ReadCloser) {
+
+	for _, f := range r.File {
+		ext := strings.ToLower(path.Ext(f.Name))
+		if ext != ".xhtml" && ext != ".html" && ext != ".htm" && ext != ".xml" {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// Skip manifest, toc, ncx files - they don't contain book content
+		nameLower := strings.ToLower(f.Name)
+		if strings.Contains(nameLower, "toc") || strings.Contains(nameLower, "nav") ||
+			strings.Contains(nameLower, "manifest") || strings.Contains(nameLower, ".opf") ||
+			strings.HasSuffix(nameLower, ".ncx") {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		rc, err := f.Open()
+		if err != nil {
+			continue
+		}
+
 		if sb.Len() > 0 {
 			sb.WriteString("\n\n")
 		}
-		sb.WriteString(title)
+		sb.WriteString(f.Name)
 		sb.WriteString("\n")
-		buf, readErr := io.ReadAll(xhtml)
+
+		buf, readErr := io.ReadAll(rc)
+		rc.Close()
 		if readErr == nil {
 			sb.WriteString(stripHTML(string(buf)))
 		}
-	})
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("failed to iterate epub chapters: %w", err)
 	}
+
 	if sb.Len() == 0 {
 		return "", errors.New("no content extracted from epub")
 	}