calibredb

Manipulate an e-book database. Part of the Calibre e-book library. More information: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/calibredb.html.

• List e-books in the library with additional information:

calibredb list

• Search for e-books displaying additional information:

calibredb list --search search_term

• Search for just ids of e-books:

calibredb search search_term

• Add one or more e-books to the library:

calibredb add path/to/file1 path/to/file2 …

• Recursively add all e-books under a directory to the library:

calibredb add -r|–recurse path/to/directory

• Remove one or more e-books from the library. You need the e-book IDs (see above):

calibredb remove id1 id2 …