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mobimeta — Utility for modifying metadata of MOBI format ebook files.

mobimeta [-a meta=value[,meta=value,...]] [-d meta[,meta,...]] [-s meta=value[,meta=value,...]] [-p pid] [-P serial] [-hv] filein [fileout]

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. If fileout is specified, modified document will be saved with this name, otherwise original input filein will be modified.

A list of flags and their descriptions:

meta=value[,meta=value,...]
add (append) metadata
meta[,meta,...]
delete metadata
meta=value[,meta=value,...]
set (replace) metadata
meta
for a list of valid named meta keys try mobimeta {-a | -d | -s} ?. If meta is an integer it will be treated as a numeric EXTH record key (expert usage).
value
new value that will be set for a given meta key
pid
set pid for decryption
serial
set device serial number for decryption
show usage summary and exit
show version and exit

The following command will set new title, new author and will delete all publisher metadata (if any).

% mobimeta -s title="My title",author="My name" -d publisher example.mobi

The following command appends EXTH record identified by its numeric key 204 with numeric value 201.

% mobimeta -a 204=201 example.mobi

The following command will list valid meta named keys.

% mobimeta -a ?

Or in case your shell expands quotation mark:

% mobimeta -a "?"

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

Copyright (C) 2014-2022 Bartek Fabiszewski.

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

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

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

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February 16, 2022 Unix