I'm trying to convert The Complete Works of George MacDonald from mobi to epub. It never tells me what is wrong but I have pasted in the log below. I've redownloaded the book at least 3 times and re-imported into Calibre with the appropriate plug-ins up to date, and have the most recent version of Calibre also. (updated today)
I don't know anything about tweaking the input/output stuff, just push a button and have it all convert using defaults, and have not had problems with any other mobi books; it's usually the newer formats that give trouble.
Spoiler:
Convert book 1 of 1 (The Complete Works of George MacDonald (50+ works with an active table of contents))
Conversion options changed from defaults:
insert_metadata: True
output_profile: 'kobo'
read_metadata_from_opf: u'C:\\Users\\Karen\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_ takcgy\\c4aoj5.opf'
cover: u'C:\\Users\\Karen\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_ takcgy\\txyk79.jpeg'
enable_heuristics: True
verbose: 2
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 2.85.1
{'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(., '\\s*((chapter|book|section|part)\\s+)|((prolog|pr ologue|epilogue)(\\s+|$))', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']",
'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak',
'comments': None,
'cover': u'C:\\Users\\Karen\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_ takcgy\\txyk79.jpeg',
'debug_pipeline': None,
'dehyphenate': True,
'delete_blank_paragraphs': True,
'disable_font_rescaling': False,
'dont_split_on_page_breaks': False,
'duplicate_links_in_toc': False,
'embed_all_fonts': False,
'embed_font_family': None,
'enable_heuristics': True,
'epub_flatten': False,
'epub_inline_toc': False,
'epub_toc_at_end': False,
'expand_css': False,
'extra_css': None,
'extract_to': None,
'filter_css': u'',
'fix_indents': True,
'flow_size': 260,
'font_size_mapping': None,
'format_scene_breaks': True,
'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4,
'input_encoding': None,
'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x04A3B8D0>,
'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,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_default_epub_cover': False,
'no_inline_navbars': False,
'no_svg_cover': False,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.KoboReaderOutput object at 0x04A3BCF0>,
'page_breaks_before': u"//*[name()='h1' or name()='h2']",
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'preserve_cover_aspect_ratio': False,
'pretty_print': True,
'pubdate': None,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': u'C:\\Users\\Karen\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_ takcgy\\c4aoj5.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,
'smarten_punctuation': False,
'sr1_replace': None,
'sr1_search': None,
'sr2_replace': None,
'sr2_search': None,
'sr3_replace': None,
'sr3_search': None,
'start_reading_at': None,
'subset_embedded_fonts': False,
'tags': None,
'timestamp': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'toc_title': None,
'transform_css_rules': '[]',
'unsmarten_punctuation': False,
'unwrap_lines': True,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: MOBI Input running
on C:\Users\Karen\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_takcgy\e lqxv6.mobi
Extracting text...
Adding anchors...
Extracting images...
Cleaning up HTML...
Parsing HTML...
Converting style information to CSS...
Creating OPF...
Parsing all content...
Parsing index.html ...
********* Heuristic processing HTML *********
There are 19 blank lines. 0.000192391425418 percent blank
minimum chapters required are: 335
found 53 pre-existing headings
common had 40 hits - 40 chapters with no title, 0 chapters with titles, 0.0 percent.
chapter had 38 hits - 38 chapters with no title, 0 chapters with titles, 0.0 percent.
numeric had 396 hits - 396 chapters with no title, 0 chapters with titles, 0.0 percent.
uppercase had 215 hits - 215 chapters with no title, 0 chapters with titles, 0.0 percent.
Marked 53 headings, Searching for common section headings
marked 54 chapters. - CHAPTER I
marked 55 chapters. - CHAPTER II
marked 56 chapters. - CHAPTER III
marked 57 chapters. - CHAPTER IV
marked 58 chapters. - CHAPTER V
marked 59 chapters. - CHAPTER VI
marked 60 chapters. - CHAPTER VII
marked 61 chapters. - CHAPTER VIII
marked 62 chapters. - CHAPTER IX
marked 63 chapters. - CHAPTER X
marked 64 chapters. - CHAPTER XI
marked 65 chapters. - CHAPTER XII
marked 66 chapters. - CHAPTER XIII
marked 67 chapters. - CHAPTER XIV
marked 68 chapters. - CHAPTER XV
marked 69 chapters. - CHAPTER XVI
marked 70 chapters. - CHAPTER XVII
marked 71 chapters. - CHAPTER XVIII
marked 72 chapters. - CHAPTER XIX
marked 73 chapters. - CHAPTER XX
marked 74 chapters. - CHAPTER XXI
marked 75 chapters. - CHAPTER XXII
marked 76 chapters. - CHAPTER XXIII
marked 77 chapters. - CHAPTER XXIV
marked 78 chapters. - CHAPTER XXV
marked 79 chapters. - CHAPTER XXVI
marked 80 chapters. - CHAPTER XXVII
marked 81 chapters. - CHAPTER XXVIII
marked 82 chapters. - CHAPTER XXIX
marked 83 chapters. - CHAPTER XXX
marked 84 chapters. - CHAPTER XXXI
marked 85 chapters. - CHAPTER XXXII
marked 86 chapters. - CHAPTER XXXIII
marked 87 chapters. - CHAPTER XXXIV
marked 88 chapters. - CHAPTER XXXV
marked 89 chapters. - CHAPTER XXXVI
marked 90 chapters. - CHAPTER XXXVII
marked 91 chapters. - CHAPTER XXXVIII
marked 92 chapters. - PREFACE
marked 93 chapters. - INTRODUCTION
Total wordcount is: 5015331, Average words per section is: 53928, Marked up 93 chapters