I have tried as much as my limited brain will allow on a conversion from .lit to epub, with no luck. Here's the error info, with hopes you smarter folks can help me solve the issue:
ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Convert book 1 of 1 (The All White Elf)
Convert book 1 of 1 (The All White Elf)
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 0.7.16
{'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': None,
'debug_pipeline': u'D:/Calibre Debug',
'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.MSReaderInput object at 0x04FB3A10>,
'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.NookOutput object at 0x04FB3CB0>,
'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': 'c:\\users\\artmoo~1\\appdata\\local\\temp\\calibr e_0.7.16_tmp_8onqsw\\calibre_0.7.16_sso12q.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: LIT Input running
on D:\Calibre Library\Lester Dent\The All White Elf (1)\The All White Elf - Lester Dent.lit
Parsing all content...
Parsing 097%20-%20The%20All%20White%20Elf.htm ...
Initial parse failed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\base.py", line 816, in first_pass
File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 2532, in lxml.etree.fromstring (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:48270)
File "parser.pxi", line 1545, in lxml.etree._parseMemoryDocument (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:71812)
File "parser.pxi", line 1417, in lxml.etree._parseDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:70608)
File "parser.pxi", line 898, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseUnicodeDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:67148)
File "parser.pxi", line 539, in lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:63824)
File "parser.pxi", line 625, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:64745)
File "parser.pxi", line 565, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:64088)
XMLSyntaxError: PCDATA invalid Char value 1, line 1, column 18
Parsing file '097%20-%20The%20All%20White%20Elf.htm' as HTML
Forcing 097%20-%20The%20All%20White%20Elf.htm into XHTML namespace
File '097%20-%20The%20All%20White%20Elf.htm' missing <head/> element
Parsing ~cov0141.htm ...
Forcing ~cov0141.htm into XHTML namespace
Generating default TOC from spine...
Input debug saved to: D:\Calibre Debug\input
Python function terminated unexpectedly
'NoneType' object has no attribute 'splitlines' (Error Code: 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 103, in main
File "site.py", line 85, in run_entry_point
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 99, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 24, in gui_convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 825, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\lit\input.py", line 46, in postprocess_book
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\txt\processor.py", line 24, in convert_basic
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'splitlines'