[loximuthal]

Originally Posted by kiwidude

@loximuthal - if you can't tell, I sure can't

Well, I still don't know. I tried uninstalling the plugin, restarting calibre, re-installing the plugin, restarting calibre again and then using the plugin. Through all of that I got no error messages. All good.

When I tried using the plugin it works fine for opening with Preview (opens the cover), Gimp (also opens the cover) and Reader (opens books in PDF format). However, when I select Sigil (for books with epub formats) I keep getting the same weird stuff. Sigil opens, but only shows "����". This happens for each book I try. Unfortunately, I don't know if this is new behavior, since I don't remember if I've used that particular choice before. I did try running in debug mode, and got this output:

Spoiler:

andy's mac > calibre-debug
WARNING: help() not available - check site.py

[~]|1> calibre
Failed to initialize plugin: '/Users/andy/Library/Preferences/calibre/plugins/Goodreads Covers.zip'
Failed to initialize plugin: '/Users/andy/Library/Preferences/calibre/plugins/Goodreads Metadata.zip'
Open: /Applications/Sigil.app (file): /Users/andy/Documents/Books/John Scalzi/The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One_ The Dead City (Excerpt) (288)/cover.jpg (args):
Open: /Applications/Sigil.app (file): /Users/andy/Documents/Books/Rachel Swirsky/The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window (416)/cover.jpg (args):
[~]|2> quit
-----> quit()
andy's mac >

I can still get a book into Sigil fairly easily, going directly to the directory with the epub file, but still. It would be nice if the plugin did what I wanted.

[EDIT] OK. It would help if I actually looked at the plugin configuration. I had Sigil set to open the cover, so of course it didn't open the book. When I switch from "COVER" to "EPUB" all works as it should. Thanks for trying to help.