NAME¶

mobitool — Utility for handling MOBI format ebook files.

SYNOPSIS¶

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.

The following command converts mobi document to epub format.

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¶

mobimeta(1) mobidrm(1)