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Old 02-18-2019, 12:52 AM   #1
tamarissa
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Failed to read book error message

I tried to open 3 MOBI files, and received 2 separate error messages:


Book 1:

Quote:
calibre, version 3.39.1
ERROR: Could not open e-book: Failed to read book, /Users/Mona/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Books/Ilona Andrews/On the Edge (1010)/On the Edge - Ilona Andrews.mobi click "Show Details" for more information

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages/calibre/utils/ipc/simple_worker.py", line 289, in main
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/oeb/iterator/book.py", line 65, in extract_book
File "site-packages/calibre/customize/conversion.py", line 244, in __call__
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plugins/mobi_input.py", line 37, in convert
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader/mobi6.py", line 195, in extract_content
File "site-packages/lxml/html/__init__.py", line 876, in fromstring
File "site-packages/lxml/html/__init__.py", line 765, in document_fromstring
ParserError: Document is empty

Books 2 & 3:

Quote:
calibre, version 3.39.1
ERROR: Could not open e-book: Failed to read book, /Users/Mona/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Books/Ilona Andrews/Bayou Moon (1012)/Bayou Moon - Ilona Andrews.mobi click "Show Details" for more information

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages/calibre/utils/ipc/simple_worker.py", line 289, in main
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/oeb/iterator/book.py", line 65, in extract_book
File "site-packages/calibre/customize/conversion.py", line 244, in __call__
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plugins/mobi_input.py", line 35, in convert
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader/mobi6.py", line 92, in __init__
MobiError: Unknown book type: '\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'

I've never had this issue before when trying to open or convert a MOBI file. Is there a plugin or something I could get to open the files, or are they basically corrupt and therefore garbage?

Last edited by HarryT; 02-18-2019 at 02:52 AM.
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