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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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