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kovidgoyal · 03-26-2018, 04:33 AM

ebook-viewer.exe is how you run the viewer. And you can get the path to use with

calibredb list -f formats -s id:2946 --for-machine

replace 2946 with whatever id you want. Then write a small script to get the path of the format out using a tool like jq to parse the JSON.

03-26-2018, 04:33 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,271 Karma: 27111060 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	ebook-viewer.exe is how you run the viewer. And you can get the path to use with calibredb list -f formats -s id:2946 --for-machine replace 2946 with whatever id you want. Then write a small script to get the path of the format out using a tool like jq to parse the JSON.