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bowieb · 12-16-2019, 09:29 PM

All of a sudden Calibre has started giving the message "Preparing book for first read" for all of my books. Most of them will then open up on page 1 regardless of whether I had previously been reading it or not.

Some of the books will give the "Loading book failed" error instead of opening on page 1 with the details referencing XML errors. The editor still works and renders the pages normally for these books. The XML for the text and other support files in the epub looks normal. Some of these books were created from within Calibre and none of them have changed since the last time I read them using Calibre.

I was originally thinking some sort of corruption, but the files unzip normally and all of the internal files look good when accessed with a text editor. I tested one of them with the Freda reader, which opened it without any problems.

Any thoughts?

12-16-2019, 09:29 PM	#1
bowieb Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2012 Device: Kindle Touch	Errors opening books and lost last page read All of a sudden Calibre has started giving the message "Preparing book for first read" for all of my books. Most of them will then open up on page 1 regardless of whether I had previously been reading it or not. Some of the books will give the "Loading book failed" error instead of opening on page 1 with the details referencing XML errors. The editor still works and renders the pages normally for these books. The XML for the text and other support files in the epub looks normal. Some of these books were created from within Calibre and none of them have changed since the last time I read them using Calibre. I was originally thinking some sort of corruption, but the files unzip normally and all of the internal files look good when accessed with a text editor. I tested one of them with the Freda reader, which opened it without any problems. Any thoughts?