calibre - ebook management application.
calibre [options] [path_to_ebook or calibre url ...]Whenever you pass arguments to calibre that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation marks. For example: "/some path/with spaces"
- --detach
Detach from the controlling terminal, if any (Linux only)
- --help, -h
show this help message and exit
- --ignore-plugins
Ignore custom plugins, useful if you installed a plugin that is preventing calibre from starting
- --no-update-check
Do not check for updates
- --shutdown-running-calibre, -s
Cause a running calibre instance, if any, to be shutdown. Note that if there are running jobs, they will be silently aborted, so use with care.
- --start-in-tray
Start minimized to system tray.
- --verbose, -v
Ignored, do not use. Present only for legacy reasons
- --version
show program's version number and exit
- --with-library
Use the library located at the specified path.
Launch the main calibre Graphical User Interface and optionally add the e-book at path_to_ebook to the database.
calibre [options] [path_to_ebook or calibre url ...]You can also specify calibre URLs to perform various different actions, than just adding books. For example:
calibre://view-book/test_library/1842/epub
Will open the book with id 1842 in the EPUB format from the library "test_library" in the calibre E-book viewer. Library names are the folder names of the libraries with spaces replaced by underscores. A full description of the various URL based actions is in the User Manual.
Kovid Goyal
Kovid Goyal