[jgaiser]

Originally Posted by wallcraft

If you want to try Calibre's conversion, I suggest converting a ePub from the Patricia Clark Memorial Library. For example, Kipling, Rudyard: Kim (Illustrated).

Fails to convert...

calibre, version 0.8.49
ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Convert book 1 of 1 (Kim)

Spoiler:

Convert book 1 of 1 (Kim)
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 0.8.49
{'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': u'/tmp/calibre_0.8.49_tmp_Z9H7lb/s3lqj_.jpeg',
'debug_pipeline': None,
'dehyphenate': True,
'delete_blank_paragraphs': True,
'disable_font_rescaling': False,
'dont_compress': False,
'duplicate_links_in_toc': False,
'enable_heuristics': 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 0x96693cc>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'insert_blank_line_size': 0.5,
'insert_metadata': True,
'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_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.KindleDXOutput object at 0x9669dec>,
'page_breaks_before': u'/',
'personal_doc': u'EDOC',
'prefer_author_sort': False,
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'pretty_print': False,
'pubdate': None,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': u'/tmp/calibre_0.8.49_tmp_Z9H7lb/fOsvUh.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': True,
'smarten_punctuation': False,
'sr1_replace': None,
'sr1_search': None,
'sr2_replace': None,
'sr2_search': None,
'sr3_replace': None,
'sr3_search': None,
'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: EPUB Input running
on /tmp/calibre_0.8.49_tmp_Z9H7lb/JhbRxv.epub
Found HTML cover OEBPS/cover.html
Parsing all content...
Parsing OEBPS/kim8.html ...
Parsing OEBPS/kim10.html ...
Parsing OEBPS/kim13.html ...
Parsing OEBPS/kim3.html ...
Parsing OEBPS/kim14.html ...
Parsing OEBPS/kim15.html ...
Parsing OEBPS/frontispiece.html ...
Parsing OEBPS/colophon.html ...
Parsing OEBPS/illustrations.html ...
Parsing OEBPS/kim4.html ...
Parsing OEBPS/kim5.html ...
Parsing OEBPS/contents.html ...
Parsing OEBPS/kim6.html ...
Parsing OEBPS/cover.html ...
Parsing OEBPS/kim2.html ...
Parsing OEBPS/styles.css ...
Parsing OEBPS/titlepage.html ...
Parsing OEBPS/kim9.html ...
Parsing OEBPS/kim7.html ...
Parsing OEBPS/kim1.html ...
Parsing OEBPS/kim11.html ...
Parsing OEBPS/kim12.html ...
Reading TOC from NCX...
Merging user specified metadata...
Detecting structure...
Detected chapter: Chapter 1
Detected chapter: Chapter 2
Detected chapter: Chapter 3
Detected chapter: Chapter 4
Detected chapter: Chapter 5
Detected chapter: Chapter 6
Detected chapter: Chapter 7
Detected chapter: Chapter 8
Detected chapter: Chapter 9
Detected chapter: Chapter 10
Detected chapter: Chapter 11
Detected chapter: Chapter 12
Detected chapter: Chapter 13
Detected chapter: Chapter 14
Detected chapter: Chapter 15
Inserting metadata into book...
Flattening CSS and remapping font sizes...
Source base font size is 12.00000pt
Removing fake margins...
Parsing stylesheet.css ...
Found 17 items of level: div_1
Found 2 items of level: div_2
Found 1 items of level: p_4
Found 19 items of level: p_2
Found 5 items of level: p_3
Found 2561 items of level: p_1
Ignoring level p_4
Ignoring level p_2
Ignoring level p_3
div_1 left margin stats: Counter({u'': 1})
div_1 right margin stats: Counter({u'': 1})
div_2 left margin stats: Counter({u'': 1})
div_2 right margin stats: Counter({u'': 1})
p_1 left margin stats: Counter({u'0': 2561})
p_1 right margin stats: Counter({u'0': 2561})
Cleaning up manifest...
Trimming unused files from manifest...
Trimming u'OEBPS/cover.html' from manifest
Trimming u'OEBPS/cover.jpg' from manifest
Creating MOBI Output...
Serializing resources...
Splitting on page-break
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Split into 2 parts
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Split into 4 parts
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Splitting on page-break
Splitting on page-break
Creating KF8 output
Generating KF8 markup...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 58, in main
File "site-packages/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py", line 191, 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 1099, in run
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plugins/mobi_output.py", line 185, in convert
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plugins/mobi_output.py", line 197, in create_kf8
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer8/main.py", line 404, in create_kf8_book
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer8/main.py", line 61, in __init__
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer8/main.py", line 252, in chunk_it_up
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer8/skeleton.py", line 171, in __init__
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer8/skeleton.py", line 235, in remove_namespaces
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer8/skeleton.py", line 54, in node_from_path
File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 961, in lxml.etree._Element.__getitem__ (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:34342)
IndexError: list index out of range

Edit: Converts successfully with KF8 support turned off.