I've been successfully using Calibre to convert my various eBooks over to ePub for Stanza with great success up until one book which errors out with the following message - any tips or should I file a bug report? The mobi file opens fine with the Stanza desktop application and (mostly fine) with the Calibre eBook reader. Currently running 0.7.12 under 64-bit Ubuntu.
ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Convert book 1 of 1 (Tongues of Serpents)
Convert book 1 of 1 (Tongues of Serpents)
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 0.7.12
{'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(., 'chapter|book|section|part\\s+', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']",
'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak',
'comments': None,
'cover': '/tmp/calibre_0.7.12_KJ9fhK.jpeg',
'debug_pipeline': None,
'disable_font_rescaling': False,
'dont_split_on_page_breaks': False,
'extra_css': None,
'extract_to': None,
'flow_size': 260,
'font_size_mapping': None,
'footer_regex': u'(?i)(?<=<hr>)((\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?\\d+<br>\\s*.*?\\s*)|(\\s* <a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?.*?<br>\\s*\\d+))(?=<br>)' ,
'header_regex': u'(?i)(?<=<hr>)((\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?\\d+<br>\\s*.*?\\s*)|(\\s* <a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?.*?<br>\\s*\\d+))(?=<br>)' ,
'input_encoding': None,
'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x35f5d90>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'insert_metadata': False,
'isbn': None,
'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,
'max_toc_links': 50,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_default_epub_cover': False,
'no_inline_navbars': False,
'no_svg_cover': False,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.OutputProfile object at 0x35f8190>,
'page_breaks_before': u"//*[name()='h1' or name()='h2']",
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'preprocess_html': False,
'preserve_cover_aspect_ratio': False,
'pretty_print': True,
'pubdate': None,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': '/tmp/calibre_0.7.12_YL0Cia.opf',
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_footer': False,
'remove_header': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'tags': None,
'timestamp': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: MOBI Input running
on /home/erik/Dropbox/CalibreBookshelf/Naomi Novik/Tongues of Serpents (574)/Tongues of Serpents - Naomi Novik.mobi
Extracting text...
Adding anchors...
Extracting images...
Cleaning up HTML...
Parsing HTML...
Malformed markup, parsing using BeautifulSoup
MOBI markup appears to contain random bytes. Stripping.
Extracting text...
Adding anchors...
Extracting images...
Cleaning up HTML...
Parsing HTML...
Malformed markup, parsing using BeautifulSoup
MOBI markup appears to contain random bytes. Stripping.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/init.py", line 48, in <module>
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py", line 99, in main
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 24, in gui_convert
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py", line 815, in run
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/customize/conversion.py", line 207, in __call__
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/input.py", line 27, in convert
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader.py", line 333, in extract_content
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/lxml/html/soupparser.py", line 23, in fromstring
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/lxml/html/soupparser.py", line 66, in _parse
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1499, in __init__
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1230, in __init__
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1263, in _feed
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/HTMLParser.py", line 108, in feed
self.goahead(0)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/HTMLParser.py", line 148, in goahead
k = self.parse_starttag(i)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/HTMLParser.py", line 226, in parse_starttag
endpos = self.check_for_whole_start_tag(i)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/HTMLParser.py", line 301, in check_for_whole_start_tag
self.error("malformed start tag")
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/HTMLParser.py", line 115, in error
raise HTMLParseError(message, self.getpos())
HTMLParser.HTMLParseError: malformed start tag, at line 23, column 116