[ladymaverick]

Hi all,

I'm a newbie to the Reader and to the Forums, and have to say I'm hugely impressed by how friendly and helpful everyone seems.

Having read through the MR Wiki, I decided to download Calibre to allow me to convert books from Project Gutenberg for my Reader.

Download and installation went absolutely fine (Version 0.4.121 on XP Home 32-bit). I spent some time playing with the books already on my Reader (editing Author names so they would be sorted alphabetically by surname) before trying to download some books from PG, saving them as .txt files.

However, when I tryto import them into Calibre to convert them I received the following error message:

attempt to write a readonly database RemoteTraceback (most recent call last): File "calibre\library\sqlite.pyo", line 80, in run OperationalError: attempt to write a readonly database
Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 646, in add_books
File "main.py", line 691, in _add_books
File "calibre\gui2\library.pyo", line 167, in add_books
File "calibre\library\database2.pyo", line 1122, in add_books
File "calibre\library\sqlite.pyo", line 107, in run
DatabaseException: attempt to write a readonly database
RemoteTraceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\library\sqlite.pyo", line 80, in run
OperationalError: attempt to write a readonly database


Looking at the file properties, the file was marked Read-Only (not sure why or how this happened); however, unlocking the Write restriction made no difference, still giving me the same message.

I tried downloading the file again as a .htm, but encountered the exact same problem.

I haven't a clue where to go now, and would really appreciate someone helping me with my problem.

Thanks in advance,

Moira. x