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 aslibmobi ).
WEB SITE
Visit http://www.fabiszewski.net for details.
DIAGNOSTICS
For diagnostics libmobi must be configured with --enable-debug option.