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EBOOK-VIEWER(1) calibre EBOOK-VIEWER(1)

NAME

ebook-viewer - ebook-viewer

ebook-viewer [options] file


View an e-book.

Whenever you pass arguments to ebook-viewer that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation marks. For example: "/some path/with spaces"

[OPTIONS]

Continue reading the last opened book

Detach from the controlling terminal, if any (Linux only)

Force reload of all opened books

If specified, the E-book viewer window will try to open full screen when started.

show this help message and exit

Open a new viewer window even when the option to use only a single viewer window is set

The position at which to open the specified book. The position is a location or position you can get by using the Go to->Location action in the viewer controls. Alternately, you can use the form toc:something and it will open at the location of the first Table of Contents entry that contains the string "something". The form toc-href:something will match the href (internal link destination) of toc nodes. The matching is exact. If you want to match a substring, use the form toc-href-contains:something. The form ref:something will use Reference mode references. The form search:something will search for something after opening the book. The form regex:something will search for the regular expression something after opening the book.

If specified, the E-book viewer window will try to come to the front when started.

show program's version number and exit

AUTHOR

Kovid Goyal

COPYRIGHT

Kovid Goyal

September 27, 2024 7.19.0