Quote:
Originally Posted by Nsomniak6
I created them with either the "anthology" option in FFF or Epubmerge plugin but they were separate books from the same series and I was able to keep updating them so probably FFF. I was playing around with one of them and found that I could open it as a mobi but not an epub. I still don't understand why that is though.
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OK, I just renamed a genuine MOBI to .EPUB, and opened it in the viewer and got the same error.
Spoiler:
calibre, version 6.8.0
ERROR: Loading book failed: Failed to open the book at C:\_Sandpit\author A - Another Book.epub. Click "Show details" for more info.
Failed to convert book: C:\_Sandpit\author A - Another Book.epub with error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\epub.py", line 160, in get_zip_reader
File "calibre\utils\zipfile.py", line 774, in __init__
File "calibre\utils\zipfile.py", line 809, in _GetContents
File "calibre\utils\zipfile.py", line 824, in _RealGetContents
calibre.utils.zipfile.BadZipfile: File is not a zip file
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\customize\ui.py", line 435, in get_file_type_metadata
File "calibre\customize\builtins.py", line 175, in get_metadata
File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\epub.py", line 237, in get_quick_metadata
File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\epub.py", line 216, in get_metadata
File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\epub.py", line 163, in get_zip_reader
File "calibre\utils\localunzip.py", line 263, in __init__
File "calibre\utils\localunzip.py", line 239, in _extractall
ValueError: Not a ZIP file
InputFormatPlugin: EPUB Input running
on C:\_Sandpit\author A - Another Book.epub
EPUB appears to be invalid ZIP file, trying a more forgiving ZIP parser
Failed to run pipe worker with command: from calibre.srv.render_book import viewer_main; viewer_main()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\ebooks\conversion\plugins\epub_input. py", line 259, in convert
File "calibre\utils\zipfile.py", line 774, in __init__
File "calibre\utils\zipfile.py", line 809, in _GetContents
File "calibre\utils\zipfile.py", line 824, in _RealGetContents
calibre.utils.zipfile.BadZipfile: File is not a zip file
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "runpy.py", line 196, in _run_module_as_main
File "runpy.py", line 86, in _run_code
File "site.py", line 82, in <module>
File "site.py", line 77, in main
File "site.py", line 49, in run_entry_point
File "calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 196, in main
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "calibre\srv\render_book.py", line 821, in viewer_main
File "calibre\srv\render_book.py", line 812, in render_for_viewer
File "calibre\srv\render_book.py", line 789, in render
File "calibre\ebooks\oeb\iterator\book.py", line 62, in extract_book
File "calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 242, in __call__
File "calibre\ebooks\conversion\plugins\epub_input. py", line 266, in convert
File "calibre\utils\localunzip.py", line 252, in extractall
File "calibre\utils\localunzip.py", line 239, in _extractall
ValueError: Not a ZIP file
Conclusion: some-one/thing created the file
Spoils Anthology - not_poignant.MOBI and some-one/thing renamed the file to
Spoils Anthology - not_poignant.EPUB.
BR