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

       mobimeta(1) mobidrm(1)

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