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Old 10-04-2014, 08:38 PM   #1
emerydaly
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calibre could not open ebook

I am trying to open a mobi file and get message "invalid start type"

calibre, version 0.9.11
ERROR: Could not open ebook: invalid start byte

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\viewer\main.py", line 40, in run
File "threading.py", line 504, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\iterator\book.py", line 99, in __enter__
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 239, in __call__
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plugins\mobi_in put.py", line 40, in convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\mobi\reader\mobi8.py", line 92, in __call__
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\mobi\reader\mobi8.py", line 418, in expand_text
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\mobi\reader\markup.py", line 310, in expand_mobi8_markup
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\mobi\reader\markup.py", line 51, in update_internal_links
File "encodings\utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x84 in position 4034: invalid start byte
Any suggestions greatly appreciated
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