Problem converting de-drm'd MOBI book to EPUB on Calibre

[deirdre09]

Hi,
I downloaded four books today to my Kindle for Mac, and imported them into Calibre. Three converted happily from MOBI to EPUB, one didn't.
DeDRM (version 3.0) says the book isn't incrypted, but I can't get it to convert. Here's the error message (new at this, so not sure if this gives enough information? or too much?)
Any help appreciated, can't see why this book is different to the others...

Thanks!

Deirde


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calibre, version 0.8.2
ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Convert book 1 of 1 (The Litigators)

Spoiler:

Convert book 1 of 1 (The Litigators)
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 0.8.2
{'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|prologue|epilogue\\s+', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']",
'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak',
'comments': None,
'cover': u'/var/folders/Qn/QnLNY8ge2RiN9++1Ys0hDU+++TI/-Tmp-/calibre_0.8.2_tmp_cOo7vJ/calibre_0.8.2_J06cAg.jpeg',
'debug_pipeline': None,
'dehyphenate': True,
'delete_blank_paragraphs': True,
'disable_font_rescaling': False,
'dont_split_on_page_breaks': False,
'enable_heuristics': False,
'epub_flatten': True,
'extra_css': None,
'extract_to': None,
'fix_indents': True,
'flow_size': 260,
'font_size_mapping': None,
'format_scene_breaks': True,
'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4,
'input_encoding': None,
'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x10985c050>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'insert_metadata': False,
'isbn': None,
'italicize_common_cases': True,
'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,
'markup_chapter_headings': True,
'max_toc_links': 50,
'minimum_line_height': 120.0,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_default_epub_cover': False,
'no_inline_navbars': False,
'no_svg_cover': False,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.SonyReader300Output object at 0x10985c910>,
'page_breaks_before': u"//*[name()='h1' or name()='h2']",
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'preserve_cover_aspect_ratio': False,
'pretty_print': True,
'pubdate': None,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': u'/var/folders/Qn/QnLNY8ge2RiN9++1Ys0hDU+++TI/-Tmp-/calibre_0.8.2_tmp_cOo7vJ/calibre_0.8.2_H1JB4l.opf',
'remove_fake_margins': True,
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
'renumber_headings': True,
'replace_scene_breaks': u'',
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'smarten_punctuation': False,
'sr1_replace': None,
'sr1_search': None,
'sr2_replace': None,
'sr2_search': None,
'sr3_replace': None,
'sr3_search': None,
'tags': None,
'timestamp': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'unwrap_lines': True,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'verbose': 2}
Python function terminated unexpectedly: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '8217e'
InputFormatPlugin: MOBI Input running
on /Users/deirdre/Calibre Library/Grisham_ John/The Litigators (124)/The Litigators - Grisham_ John.mobi
Extracting text...
Adding anchors...
Extracting images...
Cleaning up HTML...
Parsing HTML...
Malformed markup, parsing using BeautifulSoup
MOBI markup appears to contain random bytes. Stripping.
Extracting text...
Adding anchors...
Extracting images...
Cleaning up HTML...
Parsing HTML...
Malformed markup, parsing using BeautifulSoup
MOBI markup appears to contain random bytes. Stripping.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Applications/Installed Apps/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/Python/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 147, in main
return run_entry_point()
File "/Applications/Installed Apps/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/Python/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 116, in run_entry_point
return getattr(pmod, func)()
File "site-packages/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py", line 181, in main
File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 31, in gui_convert_override
File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 25, in gui_convert
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py", line 920, in run
File "site-packages/calibre/customize/conversion.py", line 204, in __call__
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/mobi/input.py", line 27, in convert
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader.py", line 349, in extract_content
File "site-packages/lxml/html/soupparser.py", line 23, in fromstring
File "site-packages/lxml/html/soupparser.py", line 66, in _parse
File "site-packages/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1517, in __init__
File "site-packages/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1142, in __init__
File "site-packages/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1184, in _feed
File "lib/python2.7/sgmllib.py", line 104, in feed
File "lib/python2.7/sgmllib.py", line 186, in goahead
File "site-packages/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1393, in handle_charref
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '8217e'

[kovidgoyal]

Your version of calibre is very old. Upgrade to the latest (0.8.30) and then try your conversion.

[deirdre09]

Thanks Kovid, that worked perfectly.
You're a very patient man!
And Calibre is a wonderful application, I'd be lost without it.

Best wishes,

Deirdre