---
name: "ebook-viewer"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "calibre"
version: "9.14.0-5"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ebook-viewer"
---

# ebook-viewer(1)

ebook-viewer View an e-book. Whenever you pass arguments to ebook-viewer that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation marks. For example: "/some path/with spaces"

## NAME

ebook-viewer - ebook-viewer

```
ebook-viewer [options] file
```

View an e-book.

Whenever you pass arguments to **ebook-viewer** that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation marks. For example: "/some path/with spaces"

## \[OPTIONS\]

- **--continue**

  Continue reading the last opened book

- **--detach**

  Detach from the controlling terminal, if any (Linux only)

- **--force-reload**

  Force reload of all opened books

- **--full-screen, --fullscreen, -f**

  If specified, the E-book viewer window will try to open full screen when started.

- **--help, -h**

  show this help message and exit

- **--new-instance**

  Open a new viewer window even when the option to use only a single viewer window is set

- **--open-at**

  The position at which to open the specified book. The position is a location or position you can get by using the Go to-\>Location action in the viewer controls. Alternately, you can use the form toc:something and it will open at the location of the first Table of Contents entry that contains the string **"**something**"**. The form toc-href:something will match the href (internal link destination) of toc nodes. The matching is exact. If you want to match a substring, use the form toc-href-contains:something. The form ref:something will use Reference mode references. The form search:something will search for something after opening the book. The form regex:something will search for the regular expression something after opening the book.

- **--raise-window**

  If specified, the E-book viewer window will try to come to the front when started.

- **--version**

  show program**'**s version number and exit

## Author

Kovid Goyal

## Copyright

Kovid Goyal