Graphic novel azw3 to mobi failed

Kythe42 · 06-01-2014, 01:02 PM

Last night I attempted to convert a fairly large graphic novel book from azw3 to mobi. The conversion was running for several hours and much to my dismay when it finished it said that it failed. I didn't change any of the default options when converting the file. Below is a log of the error message given me. Please let me know if there's anything I need to fix to get this to work, or if it was likely a fluke and I should try again. I'm using Calibre 1.37 on a Windows 7 operating system. Let me know if there's other info you need. Thanks.

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mbovenka · 06-01-2014, 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kythe42

Last night I attempted to convert a fairly large graphic novel book from azw3 to mobi. The conversion was running for several hours and much to my dismay when it finished it said that it failed. I didn't change any of the default options when converting the file. Below is a log of the error message given me. Please let me know if there's anything I need to fix to get this to work, or if it was likely a fluke and I should try again. I'm using Calibre 1.37 on a Windows 7 operating system. Let me know if there's other info you need. Thanks.

The 'MemoryError' at the end says it all: you ran out of RAM. Complicated conversions can do that to you. If you have more than 4GB RAM you could switch to the 64-bit version of Calibre to use it all (the 32-bit version can't use more than 3.5GB).

If you don't and/or are running a 32-bit Win7, you're out of luck.

Kythe42 · 06-01-2014, 02:19 PM

Yeah I only have 4GB of RAM. Though my antivirus started it's monthly full system scan during this and that tends to slow down my laptop a lot. Do you think it would be worth trying again after the scan finishes?

Also are you completely sure it's a memory problem? I tried an online conversion site and the conversion failed almost as soon as it finished uploading the file. I'm not saying that it's impossible for an online site to fail because of a memory problem, but I'd expect it to take longer for it to tell me it failed.

If you're sure it's a memory issue and you don't think trying again after my AV scan finishes would make a difference, then maybe I'll try on my mother's brand new Windows 8.1 desktop which has 6GB of ram but I don't want to install software on her computer if it's not necessary(though I can always remove it when I'm done).

A part of me thinks I should just screw it and return the ebook to Amazon and buy it from B&N since my tablet app takes epub files, but I don't have a Nook account so I'd have to go through the trouble of setting that up, plus the book costs more on Nook than Kindle.

theducks · 06-01-2014, 02:20 PM

You have a K4?
Use AZW3. My tweaked EPUBS look very close on my K4NT (I think I also change a K4 setting to use PUBLISHERS styles)

Kythe42 · 06-01-2014, 02:30 PM

Well I don't actually use my Kindle 4 anymore. I read on my tablet using Moon + Reader Pro which doesn't take azw or azw3 which was why I was trying to convert to mobi. Even if I wanted to use my Kindle it would kind of suck because it would be all in black and white and I'd rather be able to see the color images.

Also for some reason the images don't really show up properly with the azw3 file(can't see them at all except the cover image) in the Calibre ebook viewer so I don't have the option of just reading it as is on my laptop.

Since it's a graphic novel I might look into how I can extract all the images from the azw3 file and just make a cbr file.

kristalana · 06-01-2014, 03:01 PM

Have you tried converting to epub?

Kythe42 · 06-01-2014, 03:10 PM

Not yet. I started to, but it was taking such an insane amount of time that I thought maybe it would work better if I tried mobi. When that was taking forever as well I looked it up and saw other posts telling people to just let it run and sometimes large files can take over a day to finish converting, so I just let the mobi finish running.

I did try another online conversion site and tried to convert to both mobi and epub and both gave me a drm error. I wonder if the drm didn't get properly removed, but if that was the case I shouldn't have been able to open the file with calibre at all right?

BetterRed · 06-01-2014, 03:59 PM

@Kythe42 - At the top of the log there is this

Code:

File "calibre_plugins.dedrm.__init__", line 130, in initialize
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'C:\\Users\\Owner\\AppData\\Roaming\\calibre\\plu gins\\DeDRM\\libraryfiles\\alfcrypto.dll'
Failed to initialize plugin: DeDRM (6, 0, 8)
Failed to initialize plugin: u'C:\\Users\\Owner\\AppData\\Roaming\\calibre\\plu gins\\DeDRM.zip

That reads like the De-DRM failed, due to a permissions problem. One way to address that may be to move the calibre configuration folder elsewhere and make use of CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY see ==>> Customizing calibre — environment variables

BR

Kythe42 · 06-01-2014, 04:29 PM

That's so strange as I've never had a problem with drm removal failing. Does it matter where I move the configuration folder, or will any old folder do?

theducks · 06-01-2014, 04:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kythe42

That's so strange as I've never had a problem with drm removal failing. Does it matter where I move the configuration folder, or will any old folder do?

Please take ANY discussion on this to where you got your 'tools'
further discussion of this can get you banned

Kythe42 · 06-01-2014, 04:52 PM

There was no discussion of where I got my tools. BetterRed was talking about changing a system configuration file for Calibre itself.

I understand that instructions on how to actually remove drm are not allowed so I was trying to stay careful to avoid that. With my last question I just wanted to know if any old folder was safe to move the Calibre configuration files to.

If this is still breaking the rules somehow, please PM me and explain it to me because I don't wish to do anything wrong.

BetterRed · 06-01-2014, 06:03 PM

@Kythe42 - I suggest you copy it to somewhere like C:\_Temporary\calibre and set the CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY to point to that location. If that fixes the problem then move it somewhere sensible. I have mine in the same location as my libraries E:\Calibre Libraries, which also means it gets backed up with the libraries.

Another thing you could try is to exclude the %APPDATA%\calibre from your AV scanning, maybe an AV update has started to mess around with permissions Ψ²

BR

Kythe42 · 06-01-2014, 06:41 PM

I followed your suggestions and attempted to convert to epub this time. While it was stuck on 47% I viewed the job details and saw it still had the same error about permissions with the plugin so I cancelled the job. I think I'll probably have to contact the person that makes the plugin. Thanks anyway for your help.

Kythe42 · 06-01-2014, 11:46 PM

I found another plugin that actually very easily allowed me to convert the file to an epub and almost instantly too. It still won't display properly in the Calibre ebook viewer though, but I can view it on my tablet app, though the pagination is a bit weird.

If anyone is interested in figuring out why this file won't display the images properly in Calibre's ebook viewer, a sample can be downloaded from Amazon. I found that there was the same problem with the sample as with the full ebook.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Anyway thanks again to everyone that took the time to respond. I'll be interested if anyone figures this mystery out, but for now at least I found a way to convert and view the file.

06-01-2014, 01:02 PM	#1
Kythe42 Zealot Posts: 122 Karma: 8440 Join Date: Aug 2013 Device: Android tablet	Graphic novel azw3 to mobi failed Last night I attempted to convert a fairly large graphic novel book from azw3 to mobi. The conversion was running for several hours and much to my dismay when it finished it said that it failed. I didn't change any of the default options when converting the file. Below is a log of the error message given me. Please let me know if there's anything I need to fix to get this to work, or if it was likely a fluke and I should try again. I'm using Calibre 1.37 on a Windows 7 operating system. Let me know if there's other info you need. Thanks. Spoiler: calibre, version 1.37.0 (win32, isfrozen: True) Conversion Error: Failed: Convert book 1 of 1 (A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel) Convert book 1 of 1 (A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel) Traceback (most recent call last): File "calibre_plugins.dedrm.__init__", line 130, in initialize IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'C:\\Users\\Owner\\AppData\\Roaming\\calibre\\plu gins\\DeDRM\\libraryfiles\\alfcrypto.dll' Failed to initialize plugin: DeDRM (6, 0, 8) Failed to initialize plugin: u'C:\\Users\\Owner\\AppData\\Roaming\\calibre\\plu gins\\DeDRM.zip' Resolved conversion options calibre version: 1.37.0 {'asciiize': False, 'author_sort': None, 'authors': None, 'base_font_size': 0.0, 'book_producer': None, 'change_justification': u'original', 'chapter': u"//[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., '\\s((chapter\|book\|section\|part)\\s+)\|((prolog\|pr ologue\|epilogue)(\\s+\|$))', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']", 'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak', 'comments': None, 'cover': u'C:\\Users\\Owner\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_ vscdz2\\swtkwm.jpeg', 'debug_pipeline': None, 'dehyphenate': True, 'delete_blank_paragraphs': True, 'disable_font_rescaling': False, 'dont_compress': False, 'duplicate_links_in_toc': False, 'embed_all_fonts': False, 'embed_font_family': None, 'enable_heuristics': False, 'expand_css': False, 'extra_css': None, 'extract_to': None, 'filter_css': u'', 'fix_indents': True, 'font_size_mapping': None, 'format_scene_breaks': True, 'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4, 'input_encoding': None, 'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x040A2B10>, 'insert_blank_line': False, 'insert_blank_line_size': 0.5, 'insert_metadata': False, 'isbn': None, 'italicize_common_cases': True, 'keep_ligatures': False, 'language': None, 'level1_toc': None, 'level2_toc': None, 'level3_toc': None, 'line_height': 0.0, 'linearize_tables': False, 'margin_bottom': 5.0, 'margin_left': 5.0, 'margin_right': 5.0, 'margin_top': 5.0, 'markup_chapter_headings': True, 'max_toc_links': 50, 'minimum_line_height': 120.0, 'mobi_file_type': u'old', 'mobi_ignore_margins': False, 'mobi_keep_original_images': False, 'mobi_toc_at_start': False, 'no_chapters_in_toc': False, 'no_inline_navbars': True, 'no_inline_toc': False, 'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.KindleOutput object at 0x0416C350>, 'page_breaks_before': u"//[name()='h1' or name()='h2']", 'personal_doc': u'[PDOC]', 'prefer_author_sort': False, 'prefer_metadata_cover': False, 'pretty_print': False, 'pubdate': None, 'publisher': None, 'rating': None, 'read_metadata_from_opf': u'C:\\Users\\Owner\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_ vscdz2\\1eavey.opf', 'remove_fake_margins': True, 'remove_first_image': False, 'remove_paragraph_spacing': False, 'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5, 'renumber_headings': True, 'replace_scene_breaks': u'', 'search_replace': '[]', 'series': None, 'series_index': None, 'share_not_sync': False, 'smarten_punctuation': False, 'sr1_replace': None, 'sr1_search': None, 'sr2_replace': None, 'sr2_search': None, 'sr3_replace': None, 'sr3_search': None, 'start_reading_at': None, 'subset_embedded_fonts': False, 'tags': None, 'timestamp': None, 'title': None, 'title_sort': None, 'toc_filter': None, 'toc_threshold': 6, 'toc_title': None, 'unsmarten_punctuation': False, 'unwrap_lines': True, 'use_auto_toc': False, 'verbose': 2} InputFormatPlugin: MOBI Input running on C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_vscdz2\p aokxd.azw3 Found KF8 MOBI of type 'standalone' Extracting text... 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Found 199 items of level: div_1 Found 4312 items of level: div_3 Found 401 items of level: div_2 Found 6 items of level: div_4 Found 6 items of level: div_6 Found 21 items of level: p_7 Found 12 items of level: p_3 Ignoring level p_7 Ignoring level p_3 Ignoring level div_4 Ignoring level div_6 div_1 left margin stats: Counter({u'0': 194}) div_1 right margin stats: Counter({u'0': 194}) div_3 left margin stats: Counter({u'0': 4312}) div_3 right margin stats: Counter({u'0': 4312}) div_2 left margin stats: Counter({u'0': 183, u'424px': 179, u'200px': 1}) div_2 right margin stats: Counter({u'0': 363}) Cleaning up manifest... Trimming unused files from manifest... Trimming u'images/00398.jpeg' from manifest Trimming u'images/00005.jpeg' from manifest Creating MOBI Output... Serializing resources... Creating MOBI 6 output Generating in-line TOC... Applying case-transforming CSS... Parsing manglecase.css ... Python function terminated unexpectedly 'Value' object does not support indexing (Error Code: 1) Traceback (most recent call last): File "site.py", line 132, in main File "site.py", line 109, in run_entry_point File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 195, in main File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 31, in gui_convert_override File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 25, in gui_convert File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 1194, in run File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plugins\mobi_ou tput.py", line 202, in convert File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plugins\mobi_ou tput.py", line 222, in write_mobi File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\manglecase. py", line 38, in __call__ File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\manglecase. py", line 48, in mangle_spine File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\stylizer.py", line 271, in __init__ File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\stylizer.py", line 355, in flatten_rule File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\stylizer.py", line 382, in flatten_style File "site-packages\cssutils-0.9.10-py2.7.egg\cssutils\css\property.py", line 270, in _getValue File "site-packages\cssutils-0.9.10-py2.7.egg\cssutils\css\value.py", line 200, in <lambda> File "site-packages\cssutils-0.9.10-py2.7.egg\cssutils\serialize.py", line 994, in do_css_PropertyValue TypeError: 'Value' object does not support indexing Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs TypeError: 'tuple' object is not callable Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs TypeError: type object argument after * must be a mapping, not traceback Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs TypeError: tuple object argument after must be a mapping, not traceback Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs TypeError: type object argument after must be a mapping, not traceback Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs TypeError: tuple object argument after must be a mapping, not traceback Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs TypeError: type object argument after must be a mapping, not traceback Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs TypeError: tuple object argument after must be a mapping, not traceback Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs TypeError: type object argument after must be a mapping, not traceback Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs TypeError: tuple object argument after must be a mapping, not traceback Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs TypeError: type object argument after must be a mapping, not traceback Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs TypeError: tuple object argument after must be a mapping, not traceback Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs TypeError: type object argument after must be a mapping, not traceback Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs TypeError: tuple object argument after must be a mapping, not traceback Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs TypeError: type object argument after must be a mapping, not traceback Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs TypeError: tuple object argument after must be a mapping, not traceback Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs TypeError: type object argument after must be a mapping, not traceback Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs MemoryError Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs MemoryError Error in sys.exitfunc: Traceback (most recent call last): File "atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs MemoryError Last edited by theducks; 06-01-2014 at 01:42 PM. Reason: Wrapped long paste in Spoiler

06-01-2014, 03:59 PM	#8
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 20,568 Karma: 26954694 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@Kythe42 - At the top of the log there is this Code: File "calibre_plugins.dedrm.__init__", line 130, in initialize IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'C:\\Users\\Owner\\AppData\\Roaming\\calibre\\plu gins\\DeDRM\\libraryfiles\\alfcrypto.dll' Failed to initialize plugin: DeDRM (6, 0, 8) Failed to initialize plugin: u'C:\\Users\\Owner\\AppData\\Roaming\\calibre\\plu gins\\DeDRM.zip That reads like the De-DRM failed, due to a permissions problem. One way to address that may be to move the calibre configuration folder elsewhere and make use of CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY see ==>> Customizing calibre — environment variables BR

06-01-2014, 06:03 PM	#12
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 20,568 Karma: 26954694 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@Kythe42 - I suggest you copy it to somewhere like C:\_Temporary\calibre and set the CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY to point to that location. If that fixes the problem then move it somewhere sensible. I have mine in the same location as my libraries E:\Calibre Libraries, which also means it gets backed up with the libraries. Another thing you could try is to exclude the %APPDATA%\calibre from your AV scanning, maybe an AV update has started to mess around with permissions Ψ² BR Last edited by BetterRed; 06-01-2014 at 06:11 PM.

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06-01-2014, 02:19 PM	#3
Kythe42 Zealot Posts: 122 Karma: 8440 Join Date: Aug 2013 Device: Android tablet	Yeah I only have 4GB of RAM. Though my antivirus started it's monthly full system scan during this and that tends to slow down my laptop a lot. Do you think it would be worth trying again after the scan finishes? Also are you completely sure it's a memory problem? I tried an online conversion site and the conversion failed almost as soon as it finished uploading the file. I'm not saying that it's impossible for an online site to fail because of a memory problem, but I'd expect it to take longer for it to tell me it failed. If you're sure it's a memory issue and you don't think trying again after my AV scan finishes would make a difference, then maybe I'll try on my mother's brand new Windows 8.1 desktop which has 6GB of ram but I don't want to install software on her computer if it's not necessary(though I can always remove it when I'm done). A part of me thinks I should just screw it and return the ebook to Amazon and buy it from B&N since my tablet app takes epub files, but I don't have a Nook account so I'd have to go through the trouble of setting that up, plus the book costs more on Nook than Kindle.

06-01-2014, 02:20 PM	#4
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,800 Karma: 54830978 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	You have a K4? Use AZW3. My tweaked EPUBS look very close on my K4NT (I think I also change a K4 setting to use PUBLISHERS styles)

06-01-2014, 02:30 PM	#5
Kythe42 Zealot Posts: 122 Karma: 8440 Join Date: Aug 2013 Device: Android tablet	Well I don't actually use my Kindle 4 anymore. I read on my tablet using Moon + Reader Pro which doesn't take azw or azw3 which was why I was trying to convert to mobi. Even if I wanted to use my Kindle it would kind of suck because it would be all in black and white and I'd rather be able to see the color images. Also for some reason the images don't really show up properly with the azw3 file(can't see them at all except the cover image) in the Calibre ebook viewer so I don't have the option of just reading it as is on my laptop. Since it's a graphic novel I might look into how I can extract all the images from the azw3 file and just make a cbr file.

06-01-2014, 03:01 PM	#6
kristalana Groupie Posts: 152 Karma: 1170000 Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: USA Device: Kindle PW2, Galaxy Tab Pro	Have you tried converting to epub?

06-01-2014, 03:10 PM	#7
Kythe42 Zealot Posts: 122 Karma: 8440 Join Date: Aug 2013 Device: Android tablet	Not yet. I started to, but it was taking such an insane amount of time that I thought maybe it would work better if I tried mobi. When that was taking forever as well I looked it up and saw other posts telling people to just let it run and sometimes large files can take over a day to finish converting, so I just let the mobi finish running. I did try another online conversion site and tried to convert to both mobi and epub and both gave me a drm error. I wonder if the drm didn't get properly removed, but if that was the case I shouldn't have been able to open the file with calibre at all right?

06-01-2014, 04:29 PM	#9
Kythe42 Zealot Posts: 122 Karma: 8440 Join Date: Aug 2013 Device: Android tablet	That's so strange as I've never had a problem with drm removal failing. Does it matter where I move the configuration folder, or will any old folder do?

06-01-2014, 04:52 PM	#11
Kythe42 Zealot Posts: 122 Karma: 8440 Join Date: Aug 2013 Device: Android tablet	There was no discussion of where I got my tools. BetterRed was talking about changing a system configuration file for Calibre itself. I understand that instructions on how to actually remove drm are not allowed so I was trying to stay careful to avoid that. With my last question I just wanted to know if any old folder was safe to move the Calibre configuration files to. If this is still breaking the rules somehow, please PM me and explain it to me because I don't wish to do anything wrong.

06-01-2014, 06:41 PM	#13
Kythe42 Zealot Posts: 122 Karma: 8440 Join Date: Aug 2013 Device: Android tablet	I followed your suggestions and attempted to convert to epub this time. While it was stuck on 47% I viewed the job details and saw it still had the same error about permissions with the plugin so I cancelled the job. I think I'll probably have to contact the person that makes the plugin. Thanks anyway for your help.

06-01-2014, 11:46 PM	#14
Kythe42 Zealot Posts: 122 Karma: 8440 Join Date: Aug 2013 Device: Android tablet	I found another plugin that actually very easily allowed me to convert the file to an epub and almost instantly too. It still won't display properly in the Calibre ebook viewer though, but I can view it on my tablet app, though the pagination is a bit weird. If anyone is interested in figuring out why this file won't display the images properly in Calibre's ebook viewer, a sample can be downloaded from Amazon. I found that there was the same problem with the sample as with the full ebook. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Anyway thanks again to everyone that took the time to respond. I'll be interested if anyone figures this mystery out, but for now at least I found a way to convert and view the file.

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