it is following that suggestion that I started enthusiastically creating single-author catalogs!
Then a bug hit me in the face - I guess it's a bug since I created many catalogs for other authors, before having this error, for J.G.Ballard's books:
Code:
ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Generate catalog
Generate catalog
Catalog_EPUB_MOBI(): Generating mobi for kindle_dx in GUI environment
connected_device: 'Amazon Kindle'
book count: 10
Sections: Descriptions, Authors
opts:
authorClip: 100
catalog_title: Ballard books
connected_kindle: True
descriptionClip: 380
exclude_genre: .
exclude_tags: ~,Catalog
note_tag: *
numbers_as_text: False
read_tag: +
search_text: None
sort_by: None
sort_descriptions_by_author: True
sync: False
Begin catalog source generation
0 genre tags in database (excluding genres matching .):
Genre summary: 0 active genre tags used in generating catalog with 10 titles
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 59, in gui_catalog
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/library/catalog.py", line 4641, in run
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/library/catalog.py", line 1231, in buildSources
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/library/catalog.py", line 3146, in generateNCXBySeries
IndexError: list index out of range
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