From 72f403d52a0d610d0ec54db10dd2218c245aa6df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "copilot-swe-agent[bot]" <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 13:39:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix regression: EPUB annotations not saved due to immediate
 queue shutdown

Agent-Logs-Url: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/sessions/171c5cc8-db33-468a-9656-d88b8b95ff40

Co-authored-by: kovidgoyal <1308621+kovidgoyal@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 src/calibre/gui2/viewer/annotations.py | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/viewer/annotations.py b/src/calibre/gui2/viewer/annotations.py
index 3905638f94..e5d8e25d3e 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/viewer/annotations.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/viewer/annotations.py
@@ -67,19 +67,20 @@ class AnnotationsSaveWorker(Thread):
         self.queue = Queue()
 
     def shutdown(self):
-        self.queue.shutdown(True)
+        self.queue.shutdown(immediate=False)
+        self.join()
 
     def run(self):
         while True:
             try:
                 x = self.queue.get()
-                while True:
-                    try:
-                        x = self.queue.get_nowait()
-                    except Empty:
-                        break
             except ShutDown:
                 break
+            while True:
+                try:
+                    x = self.queue.get_nowait()
+                except (Empty, ShutDown):
+                    break
             annotations_list = x['annotations_list']
             annotations_path_key = x['annotations_path_key']
             bld = x['book_library_details']