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Nickolai Leschov
Asked: 2013-09-12 08:43:37 +0800 CST

How do I convert epub to mobi using calibre?

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How do I convert epub to mobi using Calibre for this?

format-conversion

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  1. Best Answer

    Yes, Calibre package contains a script called ebook-convert to convert ebooks between formats. You can install Calibre with

    sudo apt-get install calibre

    then

    ebook-convert "book.epub" "book.mobi"

    NB: Other formats are supported, too:

    ebook-convert "book.azw3" "book.pdf"
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  2. I found a script for batch conversion:

    for book in *.epub; do echo "Converting $book"; ebook-convert "$book" "$(basename "$book" .epub).mobi"; done

    It works good for me, but the process is pretty slow.

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  3. Install calibre. Works with any arbitrary folder depth.

    find . -name '*.epub' -type f -exec bash -c 'ebook-convert "$0" "${0%.epub}.mobi" --prefer-author-sort --output-profile=kindle --linearize-tables --smarten-punctuation --enable-heuristics' {} \;
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  4. You can also do this without installing Calibre. This would be really handy on a Chromebook, for example. There is a free, online site called EPUB Converter that will let you upload the epub and it lets you then download the mobi equivalent.

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  5. Yes, you can use Calibre for epub to mobi conversion. They declare mobi as supported output format in their FAQ.

    I don’t think there’s anything Ubuntu-specific in the question, so it would probably belong somewhere else.

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  6. As of November 2021. I had to run the command using sudo.

    E.g

    sudo ebook-convert book.epub book.mobi

    I didn't need the quotes, but you can use them if your file name has spaces. E.g:

    sudo ebook-convert "book one.epub" "book one.mobi"

    Everything else works as described in the accepted answer above.

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