Calibre Woes?

[ThomasMcKean]

Can someone tell me how to fix this?

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ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Convert book 1 of 1 (Teenagers from the Future: Essays on the Legion of Super-Heroes)

Convert book 1 of 1 (Teenagers from the Future: Essays on the Legion of Super-Heroes)
Resolved conversion options
{'asciiize': False,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 0.0,
'book_producer': None,
'chapter': u"//*[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., 'chapter|book|section|part\\s+', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']",
'chapter_mark': u'both',
'comments': None,
'cover': '/tmp/calibre_0.6.42_mQmUa1.jpeg',
'debug_pipeline': None,
'disable_font_rescaling': True,
'dont_justify': False,
'dont_split_on_page_breaks': False,
'extra_css': None,
'extract_to': None,
'flow_size': 260,
'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.NookInput object at 0xb42914c>,
'insert_blank_line': True,
'insert_metadata': False,
'isbn': None,
'language': None,
'level1_toc': None,
'level2_toc': None,
'level3_toc': None,
'line_height': 0.0,
'linearize_tables': False,
'margin_bottom': 0.0,
'margin_left': 0.0,
'margin_right': 0.0,
'margin_top': 0.0,
'max_toc_links': 50,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_default_epub_cover': False,
'no_inline_navbars': False,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.HanlinV3Output object at 0xb42942c>,
'page_breaks_before': u'/',
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'preprocess_html': False,
'pretty_print': True,
'pubdate': None,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': '/tmp/calibre_0.6.42_YqVpeD.opf',
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_footer': False,
'remove_header': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'tags': None,
'timestamp': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'use_auto_toc': True,
'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: MOBI Input running
on /home/thomas/Library/Perez_ Martin A_/Teenagers from the Future_ Essays on the Legion of Super-Heroes (996)/Teenagers from the Future_ Essays on the Legion of Super-Heroes - Perez_ Martin A_.prc
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 "/usr/bin/calibre-parallel", line 19, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py", line 99, in main
result = func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 24, in gui_convert
plumber.run()
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py", line 778, in run
accelerators, tdir)
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/customize/conversion.py", line 211, in __call__
log, accelerators)
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/mobi/input.py", line 27, in convert
mr.extract_content('.', parse_cache)
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader.py", line 332, in extract_content
root = soupparser.fromstring(self.processed_html)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/lxml/html/soupparser.py", line 23, in fromstring
return _parse(data, beautifulsoup, makeelement, **bsargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/lxml/html/soupparser.py", line 66, in _parse
tree = beautifulsoup(source, **bsargs)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1499, in __init__
BeautifulStoneSoup.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1230, in __init__
self._feed(isHTML=isHTML)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1263, in _feed
self.builder.feed(markup)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/HTMLParser.py", line 108, in feed
self.goahead(0)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/HTMLParser.py", line 148, in goahead
k = self.parse_starttag(i)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/HTMLParser.py", line 226, in parse_starttag
endpos = self.check_for_whole_start_tag(i)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/HTMLParser.py", line 301, in check_for_whole_start_tag
self.error("malformed start tag")
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/HTMLParser.py", line 115, in error
raise HTMLParseError(message, self.getpos())
HTMLParser.HTMLParseError: malformed start tag, at line 229, column 20

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All greek to me!

[DiapDealer]

It looks as if the original MOBI ebook is malformed enough that calibre is choking on it. Do you have the very latest version of calibre?