EBOOK-META(1) calibre EBOOK-META(1) NAME ebook-meta - ebook-meta ebook-meta ebook_file [options] Read/Write metadata from/to e-book files. Supported formats for reading metadata: azw, azw1, azw3, azw4, cb7, cbc, cbr, cbz, chm, docx, epub, fb2, fbz, html, htmlz, imp, lit, lrf, lrx, mobi, odt, oebzip, opf, pdb, pdf, pml, pmlz, pobi, prc, rar, rb, rtf, snb, tpz, txt, txtz, updb, zip Supported formats for writing metadata: azw, azw1, azw3, azw4, docx, epub, fb2, fbz, htmlz, lrf, mobi, odt, pdb, pdf, prc, rtf, tpz, txtz 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. For example: "/some path/with spaces" [OPTIONS] --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). --authors, -a Set the authors. Multiple authors should be separated by the & character. Author names should be in the order Firstname Lastname. --book-producer, -k Set the book producer. --category Set the book category. --comments, -c Set the e-book description. --cover Set the cover to the specified file. --date, -d Set the published date. --from-opf Read metadata from the specified OPF file and use it to set metadata in the e-book. Metadata specified on the command line will override metadata read from the OPF file --get-cover Get the cover from the e-book and save it at as the specified file. --help, -h --identifier Set the identifiers for the book, can be specified multiple times. For example: --identifier uri:https://acme.com --identifier isbn:12345 To remove an identifier, specify no value, --identifier isbn: Note that for EPUB files, an identifier marked as the package identifier cannot be removed. --index, -i Set the index of the book in this series. --isbn Set the ISBN of the book. --language, -l Set the language. --lrf-bookid Set the BookID in LRF files --publisher, -p Set the e-book publisher. --rating, -r Set the rating. Should be a number between 1 and 5. --series, -s Set the series this e-book belongs to. --tags Set the tags for the book. Should be a comma separated list. --title, -t Set the title. --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. --to-opf Specify the name of an OPF file. The metadata will be written to the OPF file. --version show program's version number and exit AUTHOR Kovid Goyal COPYRIGHT Kovid Goyal 7.17.0 23, 2024 EBOOK-META(1)