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Sneddles · 05-08-2013, 08:40 PM

The Ebook Viewer writes a text file (META-INF/calibre_bookmarks.txt) into epub files but the archive appears damaged as trying to delete the file with WinZip results in a message: "Error: Unexpected end of Zip file".

The epub file was originally created using a Java program I'm creating to cleanup badly formatted epub files. I was confused as to where this bookmarks file was coming from, so I was deleting it to try and work out where it came from.

To confuse the situation, using WinZip I can extract all of the files from the modified archive without any errors.

If I delete the bookmarks file, re-archive the files with WinZip, and then view the new epub file with the Ebook Viewer I can then delete the bookmarks file without the error.

It isn't a major problem and I have no idea where the problem might lie, but I thought it was worth reporting.

05-08-2013, 08:40 PM	#1
Sneddles Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: Kindle keyboard	Ebook Viewer damages epub files? The Ebook Viewer writes a text file (META-INF/calibre_bookmarks.txt) into epub files but the archive appears damaged as trying to delete the file with WinZip results in a message: "Error: Unexpected end of Zip file". The epub file was originally created using a Java program I'm creating to cleanup badly formatted epub files. I was confused as to where this bookmarks file was coming from, so I was deleting it to try and work out where it came from. To confuse the situation, using WinZip I can extract all of the files from the modified archive without any errors. If I delete the bookmarks file, re-archive the files with WinZip, and then view the new epub file with the Ebook Viewer I can then delete the bookmarks file without the error. It isn't a major problem and I have no idea where the problem might lie, but I thought it was worth reporting.