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ebook-meta

NAME

ebook-meta - part of calibre

SYNOPSIS

ebook-meta ebook_file [options]

DESCRIPTION

Read/Write metadata from/to ebook files.

Supported formats for reading metadata: azw, azw1, cbr, cbz, chm, epub, fb2, html, imp, lit, lrf, lrx, mobi, odt, oebzip, opf, pdb, pdf, pml, pmlz, prc, rar, rb, rtf, tpz, txt, zip

Supported formats for writing metadata: azw, azw1, epub, lrf, mobi, pdb, pdf, prc, rtf, tpz

Different file types support different kinds of metadata. If you try to set some metadata on a file type that does not support it, the metadata will be silently ignored.

Whenever you pass arguments to ebook-meta that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation marks.

OPTIONS

--version

show program's version number and exit

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

-t, --title

Set the title.

-a, --authors

Set the authors. Multiple authors should be separated by the & character. Author names should be in the order Firstname Lastname.

--title-sort

The version of the title to be used for sorting. If unspecified, and the title is specified, it will be auto-generated from the title.

--author-sort

String to be used when sorting by author. If unspecified, and the author(s) are specified, it will be auto-generated from the author(s).

--cover

Set the cover to the specified file.

-c, --comments

Set the ebook description.

-p, --publisher

Set the ebook publisher.

--category

Set the book category.

-s, --series

Set the series this ebook belongs to.

-i, --index

Set the index of the book in this series.

-r, --rating

Set the rating. Should be a number between 1 and 5.

--isbn

Set the ISBN of the book.

--tags

Set the tags for the book. Should be a comma separated list.

-k, --book-producer

Set the book producer.

-l, --language

Set the language.

-d, --date

Set the published date.

--get-cover

Get the cover from the ebook and save it at as the specified file.

--to-opf

Specify the name of an OPF file. The metadata will be written to the OPF file.

--from-opf

Read metadata from the specified OPF file and use it to set metadata in the ebook. Metadata specified on the command line will override metadata read from the OPF file

--lrf-bookid

Set the BookID in LRF files

SEE ALSO

The User Manual is available at http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual

Created by Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>