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fetch-ebook-metadata

FETCH-EBOOK-METADATA(1) 					      calibre						   FETCH-EBOOK-METADATA(1)

NAME

       fetch-ebook-metadata - part of calibre

SYNOPSIS

       fetch-ebook-metadata  [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Fetch book metadata from online sources. You must specify at least one of title, author, publisher or ISBN. If you specify ISBN, the others
       are ignored.

       Whenever you pass arguments to fetch-ebook-metadata that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation marks.

OPTIONS

       --version
	      show program's version number and exit

       -h, --help
	      show this help message and exit

       -t, --title
	      Book title

       -a, --author
	      Book author(s)

       -p, --publisher
	      Book publisher

       -i, --isbn
	      Book ISBN

       -m, --max-results
	      Maximum number of results to fetch

       -k, --isbndb-key
	      The access key for your ISBNDB.com account. Only needed if you want to search isbndb.com and you haven't customized the IsbnDB plug-
	      in.

       -v, --verbose
	      Be more verbose about errors

SEE ALSO

       The User Manual is available at http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual

       Created by Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>

fetch-ebook-metadata (calibre 0.6.53)				     July 2010						   FETCH-EBOOK-METADATA(1)

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