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)