mobitool — Utility for handling MOBI format ebook files.
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Copyright
Copyright (C) 2014-2022 Bartek Fabiszewski.
Released under LGPL version 3 or any later (same as libmobi).
Description
The program handles .prc, .mobi, .azw, .azw3, .azw4, some .pdb documents. It is powered by libmobi
library.
Invoked without arguments prints document metadata and exits.
A list of flags and their descriptions:
-c dump cover
-d dump rawml text record
-e convert mobi to epub
-h show usage summary and exit
-i print detailed metadata
-m print records metadata
-odir save output to dir folder
-ppid set pid for decryption
-Pserial
set device serial number for decryption
-r dump raw records
-s dump recreated source files
-t split hybrid file into two parts: mobi and azw3
-u show rusage (diagnostics)
-v show version and exit
-x extract conversion source and log (if present)
-7 parse KF7 part of hybrid file (by default KF8 part is parsed)
Diagnostics
For diagnostics libmobi must be configured with --enable-debug option.
Examples
The following command decompiles given mobi document. The output folder will be created in /tmp.
%mobitool-s-o/tmpexample.mobi
The following command converts mobi document to epub format.
%mobitool-eexample.mobiName
mobitool — Utility for handling MOBI format ebook files.
Return Values
The mobitool utility returns 0 on success, 1 on error.
See Also
mobimeta(1) mobidrm(1) Unix February 16, 2022 mobitool(1)
Synopsis
mobitool [-cdehimrstuvx7] [-odir] [-ppid] [-Pserial] file
Web Site
Visit http://www.fabiszewski.net for details.
