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adam1234 · 01-13-2024, 03:19 PM

Hi,

I'm trying to convert a short story for reading on my Kindle. The story is a web page. Saving the web page as HTML and loading it into Calibre usually works.

When I save https://www.tor.com/2017/07/19/the-martian-obelisk/ (save as web page, html only, Firefox, mac), and add it as a book, then try to open it by double clicking, I get an error:

"Unable to expand "the martian Obelisk...Unknown.zip" It is in an unsupported format"

But the file is not a zip, it's HTML (with an inordinately long header block, but still, clean html that I can read with an editor, and I tried emptying the entire header block from the local archive.)

So I think there's a bug in perhaps the format recognizer code?

Either way, I'd appreciate advice on working around the issue.

01-13-2024, 03:19 PM	#1
adam1234 Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2024 Device: Kindle	Calibre conversion issue Hi, I'm trying to convert a short story for reading on my Kindle. The story is a web page. Saving the web page as HTML and loading it into Calibre usually works. When I save https://www.tor.com/2017/07/19/the-martian-obelisk/ (save as web page, html only, Firefox, mac), and add it as a book, then try to open it by double clicking, I get an error: "Unable to expand "the martian Obelisk...Unknown.zip" It is in an unsupported format" But the file is not a zip, it's HTML (with an inordinately long header block, but still, clean html that I can read with an editor, and I tried emptying the entire header block from the local archive.) So I think there's a bug in perhaps the format recognizer code? Either way, I'd appreciate advice on working around the issue.