mobitool(1)

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NAME

mobitool — Utility for handling MOBI format ebook files.

SYNOPSIS

mobitool [-cdehimrstuvx7] [-o dir] [-p pid] [-P serial] file

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

-o dir

save output to dir folder

-p pid

set pid for decryption

-P serial

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)

EXAMPLES

The following command decompiles given mobi document. The output folder will be created in /tmp.

% mobitool -s -o /tmp example.mobi

The following command converts mobi document to epub format.

% mobitool -e example.mobi

RETURN VALUES

The mobitool utility returns 0 on success, 1 on error.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2014-2022 Bartek Fabiszewski.

Released under LGPL version 3 or any later (same as libmobi).

WEB SITE

Visit http://www.fabiszewski.net for details.

DIAGNOSTICS

For diagnostics libmobi must be configured with --enable-debug option.

SEE ALSO

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