CALIBRE-CUSTOMIZE(1)

👑 NAME

okay bestie, say hi to calibre-customize — the little command that ✨customizes✨ your calibre by loading external plugins. That's the whole name, that's the whole vibe 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS

calibre-customize options

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🌸 DESCRIPTION

So basically calibre-customize lets you customize calibre by loading external plugins. that's it, that's the gig 🫶

and real talk, whenever you pass arguments to calibre-customize that have spaces in them, you have to wrap those arguments in quotation marks. like, mandatory. no cap. for example:

"/some path/with spaces"

put the quotes on, bestie, the shell will not read your mind 😭

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💅 OPTIONS

• --add-plugin, -a — adds a plugin, and you do it by handing over the path to the ZIP file that contains it 📦
• --build-plugin, -b — this one's for the plugin devs out there (main character energy fr). give it the path to the folder where you're developing the plugin, and this command will automatically zip the plugin up and update it inside calibre 🔥
• --customize-plugin — customize a plugin. you specify the name of the plugin and the customization string, separated by a comma. and the customization string is the exact same thing you'd type when you customize the plugin in the main calibre GUI 🎀
• --disable-plugin — disables the named plugin 🙈
• --enable-plugin — enables the named plugin ✨
• --help, -h — shows this help message and exits 👋
• --list-plugins, -l — lists every single installed plugin. all of them. the whole roster 💖
• --remove-plugin, -r — removes a custom plugin by name. and heads up: it has no effect on builtin plugins, so don't come for the builtins, they're not going anywhere 💀
• --version — shows the program's version number and exits ⭐

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🦋 Author

Kovid Goyal

🌈 Copyright

Kovid Goyal

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and that's the whole page, bestie — slay 💖 this was calibre-customize from the calibre manual, version 9.14.0, dated August 28, 2026. go forth and plugin responsibly 👑🌸