Wow, perfect. Thank you. That worked exactly like I hoped. After removing the offending entry, Calibre seems back to normal.
If I can speculate: seems like this document had a bunch of URL encoded data in the metadata. I noticed that, when I scrolled down to this entry, the tags field, which I do not remember setting, was full of %-encoded text. You may have noticed that I changed the symptom in my report. At one point, I thought the freeze occurred as soon as the entry was visible in the table pane. I killed Calibre and restarted with a small window, then removed the tags field from the visible columns. After this, I think it stopped freezing when the entry was visible, but froze immediately when trying to select the entry. When I look at this document in Evince document vewier, it looks fine, but Evince also hangs for a while when I try to view the document properties. Maybe that information will make some sense to you.
Thank you!!!
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