NAME

     mobimeta — Utility for modifying metadata of MOBI format ebook files.

SYNOPSIS

     mobimeta [-a meta=value[,meta=value,...]] [-d meta[,meta,...]]
              [-s meta=value[,meta=value,...]] [-p pid] [-P serial] [-hv] filein [fileout]

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. If fileout is specified,
     modified document will be saved with this name, otherwise original input filein will be
     modified.

     A list of flags and their descriptions:

     -a meta=value[,meta=value,...]
              add (append) metadata

     -d meta[,meta,...]
              delete metadata

     -s meta=value[,meta=value,...]
              set (replace) metadata

     meta     for a list of valid named meta keys try mobimeta {-a | -d | -s} ?.  If meta is an
              integer it will be treated as a numeric EXTH record key (expert usage).

     value    new value that will be set for a given meta key

     -p pid   set pid for decryption

     -P serial
              set device serial number for decryption

     -h       show usage summary and exit

     -v       show version and exit

EXAMPLES

     The following command will set new title, new author and will delete all publisher metadata
     (if any).

           % mobimeta -s title="My title",author="My name" -d publisher example.mobi

     The following command appends EXTH record identified by its numeric key 204 with numeric
     value 201.

           % mobimeta -a 204=201 example.mobi

     The following command will list valid meta named keys.

           % mobimeta -a ?

     Or in case your shell expands quotation mark:

           % mobimeta -a "?"

RETURN VALUES

     The mobimeta 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

     mobitool(1) mobidrm(1)