Could I open a book in calibre library, knowing it id, using calibre console commands

mmmm1998 · 03-26-2018, 04:02 AM

Well, I have too big library and now I can't work with it from calibre GUI, because it's very slow.
So I work with the library, using console interface.
I can work with library database without any problem, but i haven't found any commands to open a book in the book viewer, knowing its identifier in the calibre database.
Of course, if i know identificator, i can view author and title and find this book in library directory, but it is uncomfortable.
So, is there commands, that i search?

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, 04:02 AM	#1
mmmm1998 Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2018 Device: none	Could I open a book in calibre library, knowing it id, using calibre console commands Well, I have too big library and now I can't work with it from calibre GUI, because it's very slow. So I work with the library, using console interface. I can work with library database without any problem, but i haven't found any commands to open a book in the book viewer, knowing its identifier in the calibre database. Of course, if i know identificator, i can view author and title and find this book in library directory, but it is uncomfortable. So, is there commands, that i search?

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03-26-2018, 04:33 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,856 Karma: 22666666 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.

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