05-09-2014, 10:53 AM | #1 |
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calibre - Unknown book type: 'OT SATIS'
I cant open some books in calibre. Error is:
calibre, version 1.36.0 ERROR: Can't open book: Unknown book type: 'OT SATIS' Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\viewer\main.py", line 40, in run File "threading.py", line 761, in run File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\iterator\book.py", line 99, in __enter__ File "site-packages\calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 241, in __call__ File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plugins\mobi_in put.py", line 33, in convert File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\mobi\reader\mobi6.py", line 83, in __init__ MobiError: Unknown book type: 'OT SATIS' what is wrong with this files ? When I edit file directly in any txt editor first line is: "The page cannot be displayed because the request range was not satisfiable." but later on in file I can find: "calibre (0.8.15) [http://calibre-ebook.com]" etc can someone help me ? |
05-09-2014, 11:00 AM | #2 |
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That is not a mobi file. If you can open it in a text editor it is probably a .txt file, which was incorrectly given a mobi extension
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05-09-2014, 11:05 AM | #3 |
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it is not a reat txt file for sure ... i have edited it in total commander and I can see some binary parts as well ... can I send you this file and you can check it ?
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05-09-2014, 11:36 AM | #4 |
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Well it's definitely not a MOBI file either.
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05-09-2014, 11:51 AM | #5 |
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i did something crazy but it partially helped
I took hex editor and replaced few first bytes of file and calibre opening file now and even I can see some text from the book but sometimes it looks like bad html formating . it seems that this is mobi file but somehow broken Is there any tool to repair broken mobi files ? |
05-09-2014, 11:55 AM | #6 |
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Not that I know of.
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