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gonzoua · 10-26-2012, 08:53 PM

While working on my fb2 to mobi converter I noticed that there was no easy (e.g. using command-line) way to examine headers or content of freshly generated .mobi files. Well, may be there was but I failed to find it and ended up writing my own tool.

So here is the result: https://github.com/gonzoua/readmobi

readmobi is a simple command-line utility capable of:

- Dumping Palm Database headers/records info
- Dumping MOBI (including PalmDoc) header info
- Dumping EXTH header info and EXTH records
- Dumping raw Palm Database records (useful for image extraction)
- Dumping book content to file

Only PalmDoc compression is supported and now DRM support. Tested on FreeBSD, Linux and MacOS X

Hope it will come handy to someone.

10-26-2012, 08:53 PM	#1
gonzoua Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: PRS-300, Kindle	command-line tool for inspecting .mobi files While working on my fb2 to mobi converter I noticed that there was no easy (e.g. using command-line) way to examine headers or content of freshly generated .mobi files. Well, may be there was but I failed to find it and ended up writing my own tool. So here is the result: https://github.com/gonzoua/readmobi readmobi is a simple command-line utility capable of: - Dumping Palm Database headers/records info - Dumping MOBI (including PalmDoc) header info - Dumping EXTH header info and EXTH records - Dumping raw Palm Database records (useful for image extraction) - Dumping book content to file Only PalmDoc compression is supported and now DRM support. Tested on FreeBSD, Linux and MacOS X Hope it will come handy to someone. Last edited by gonzoua; 10-26-2012 at 08:58 PM.