From 0d775490b02929c0d35bad875480b1477a34a4fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 12:25:18 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Ignore corrupted reading rates json file

---
 src/calibre/gui2/viewer/config.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/viewer/config.py b/src/calibre/gui2/viewer/config.py
index 02646ac499..94687cafcd 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/viewer/config.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/viewer/config.py
@@ -68,5 +68,8 @@ def load_reading_rates(key):
     except OSError:
         existing = {}
     else:
-        existing = json.loads(raw)
+        try:
+            existing = json.loads(raw)
+        except Exception:
+            existing = {}
     return existing.get(key)