Calibre LIT to MOBI Fail?

[EliteMuppet]

I have a series of books that are in lit format. Calibre is able to convert about half of them.. the other half gets an error while converting. Anyone know how I can get past this? is there possibly another converting program that I can use?

I thought I might as well post the whole details to the error... Hope it helps somewhat to solve my issue.

Convert book 1 of 1 (Wizard's First Rule)
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 0.7.4
{'asciiize': False,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 0.0,
'book_producer': None,
'change_justification': u'original',
'chapter': u"//*[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., 'chapter|book|section|part\\s+', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']",
'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak',
'comments': None,
'cover': 'c:\\docume~1\\muppet\\locals~1\\temp\\calibre_0.7 .4_oyy1vp.jpeg',
'debug_pipeline': None,
'disable_font_rescaling': False,
'dont_compress': False,
'extra_css': None,
'font_size_mapping': None,
'footer_regex': u'(?i)(?<=<hr>)((\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?\\d+<br>\\s*.*?\\s*)|(\\s* <a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?.*?<br>\\s*\\d+))(?=<br>)' ,
'header_regex': u'(?i)(?<=<hr>)((\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?\\d+<br>\\s*.*?\\s*)|(\\s* <a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?.*?<br>\\s*\\d+))(?=<br>)' ,
'input_encoding': None,
'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x03B2A530>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'insert_metadata': False,
'isbn': None,
'keep_ligatures': False,
'language': None,
'level1_toc': None,
'level2_toc': None,
'level3_toc': None,
'line_height': 0.0,
'linearize_tables': False,
'margin_bottom': 5.0,
'margin_left': 5.0,
'margin_right': 5.0,
'margin_top': 5.0,
'max_toc_links': 50,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_inline_navbars': True,
'no_inline_toc': False,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.KindleOutput object at 0x03B2A810>,
'page_breaks_before': u"//*[name()='h1' or name()='h2']",
'personal_doc': u'[PDOC]',
'prefer_author_sort': False,
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'preprocess_html': False,
'pretty_print': False,
'pubdate': None,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': 'c:\\docume~1\\muppet\\locals~1\\temp\\calibre_0.7 .4_14robo.opf',
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_footer': False,
'remove_header': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
'rescale_images': False,
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'tags': None,
'timestamp': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'toc_title': None,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: LIT Input running
on C:\Documents and Settings\Muppet\Calibre Library\Terry Goodkind\Wizard's First Rule (71)\Wizard's First Rule - Terry Goodkind.lit
Parsing all content...
LZX decompression error; skipping chunk
Failed to parse content in 1%20-%20Wizard%27s%20First%20Rule.htm
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\reader.py", line 159, in _manifest_prune_invalid
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\base.py", line 1028, in fget
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\lit\reader.py", line 867, in read
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\lit\reader.py", line 133, in __init__
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\lit\reader.py", line 238, in binary_to_text
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\lit\reader.py", line 238, in binary_to_text
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\lit\reader.py", line 238, in binary_to_text
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\lit\reader.py", line 238, in binary_to_text
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\lit\reader.py", line 238, in binary_to_text
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\lit\reader.py", line 238, in binary_to_text
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\lit\reader.py", line 238, in binary_to_text
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\lit\reader.py", line 257, in binary_to_text
LitError: Unknown attribute 101 in tag None

Spine item "RW_1_-_Wizard's_First_Rule" not found
Python function terminated unexpectedly
Spine is empty (Error Code: 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 103, in main
File "site.py", line 85, in run_entry_point
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 99, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 24, in gui_convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 815, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 211, in __call__
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\lit\input.py", line 22, in convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 951, in create_oebbook
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\reader.py", line 72, in __call__
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\reader.py", line 594, in _all_from_opf
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\reader.py", line 289, in _spine_from_opf
calibre.ebooks.oeb.base.OEBError: Spine is empty

[HarryT]

Try using "ConvertLIT" to expand the LIT to its OEB source, and then "Mobipocket Creator" to convert that to Mobipocket. Both free tools.

[HarryT]

Moved to the Workshop forum. This has nothing to do with Kindle.

[EliteMuppet]

Sorry about putting it in the Kindle section, thought maybe it had some relevance since I was talking about the format I need for my kindle :P


Anyway, I did what you said. I used ConverLIT to expand it.

I got:
5 blank images that are labeled ~Cover01 to ~cover05
1 HTML document(that when opened is blank o.O)
and an OPF File.

I tried using that Mobipocket Creator but I get this error when trying to create the file.

error(htmlparser): No BODY tag found in content file.

[kovidgoyal]

That typically means your LIT file is damaged/corrupted/invalid beyond the ability of calibre to recover.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by EliteMuppet

Sorry about putting it in the Kindle section, thought maybe it had some relevance since I was talking about the format I need for my kindle :P


Anyway, I did what you said. I used ConverLIT to expand it.

I got:
5 blank images that are labeled ~Cover01 to ~cover05
1 HTML document(that when opened is blank o.O)
and an OPF File.

I tried using that Mobipocket Creator but I get this error when trying to create the file.

As Kovid says, it sounds as if the LIT file is damaged. Does it display in Microsoft Reader as a LIT file?