calibre-customize(1)

calibre-customize1

Calibre-customize customize calibre by loading external plugins. whenever you pass arguments to calibre-customize that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation marks. for example: "/some path/with spaces"

[options]

--add-plugin, -a

Add a plugin by specifying the path to the ZIP file containing it.

--build-plugin, -b

For plugin developers: Path to the folder where you are developing the plugin. This command will automatically zip up the plugin and update it in calibre.

--customize-plugin

Customize plugin. Specify name of plugin and customization string separated by a comma. The customization string is the same as you would enter when customizing the plugin in the main calibre GUI.

--disable-plugin

Disable the named plugin

--enable-plugin

Enable the named plugin

--help, -h

show this help message and exit

--list-plugins, -l

List all installed plugins

--remove-plugin, -r

Remove a custom plugin by name. Has no effect on builtin plugins

--version

show program's version number and exit

Releases

6 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 7
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 12
  5. 13
  6. Arch

--add-plugin until Debian 7 (Wheezy); --customize-plugin until Debian 7 (Wheezy); --disable-plugin until Debian 7 (Wheezy); --enable-plugin until Debian 7 (Wheezy); --help until Debian 7 (Wheezy); --list-plugins until Debian 7 (Wheezy); --remove-plugin until Debian 7 (Wheezy); --version until Debian 7 (Wheezy); -a until Debian 7 (Wheezy); -h until Debian 7 (Wheezy); -l until Debian 7 (Wheezy); -r until Debian 7 (Wheezy).

Author

Kovid Goyal

From calibre 9.14.0-5 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.