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Old 11-05-2015, 05:02 PM   #1
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Changing "Personal Doc tag" with ebook-convert CLI tool
When I use the Calibre GUI interface, I can change the "Personal Doc tag" from "[PDOC]" to "[EBOK]" so that ebooks show up as "Books" instead of "Documents" on my Kindle:
http://support.oreilly.com/oreilly/t...kindle_devices

However, I'm having a hard time doing this using the "ebook-convert" command line tool. I've tried all of the following:

Code:
ebook-convert input.epub output.epub --personal-doc=EBOK
ebook-convert input.epub output.epub --personal-doc=EBOK --tags=EBOK
ebook-convert input.epub output.epub --personal-doc='[EBOK]'
ebook-convert input.epub output.epub --personal-doc='[EBOK]' --tags='[EBOK]'
ebook-convert input.epub output.epub --personal-doc=''
ebook-convert input.epub output.epub --personal-doc='' --tags=''
Unfortunately none of those seem to work. Has anyone else been able to figure this out?
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Old 11-05-2015, 05:35 PM   #2
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I don't believe calibre supports mangling the PDOC tag via the command line.

Reason being, because it is applied during send-to-device, not conversion.
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Old 11-05-2015, 11:32 PM   #3
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ebook-convert produces MOBI files with EBOK set by default. You can check that by using

calibre-debug file.mobi

and looking for the 501 record in header.txt for the dumped MOBI file.
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Old 11-06-2015, 03:38 PM   #4
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Got it, makes sense. Thanks for the quick responses!
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