diff --git a/src/libprs500/ebooks/chardet/__init__.py b/src/libprs500/ebooks/chardet/__init__.py
index 83763bca1c..c54c945708 100644
--- a/src/libprs500/ebooks/chardet/__init__.py
+++ b/src/libprs500/ebooks/chardet/__init__.py
@@ -30,14 +30,14 @@ def detect(aBuf):
 # Added by Kovid
 def xml_to_unicode(raw, verbose=False):
     '''
-    Force conversion of byte string to unicode. Tries to llok for XML/HTML 
+    Force conversion of byte string to unicode. Tries to look for XML/HTML 
     encoding declaration first, if not found uses the chardet library and
     prints a warning if detection confidence is < 100%
     @return: (unicode, encoding used) 
     '''
-    if not raw:
-        return u'', None
     encoding = None
+    if not raw:
+        return u'', encoding    
     if isinstance(raw, unicode):
         return raw, encoding
     match = re.compile('^\s*<\?.*encoding=[\'"](.*?)[\'"].*\?>', re.IGNORECASE).match(raw)
diff --git a/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/web/profiles/__init__.py b/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/web/profiles/__init__.py
index 768ce9e45b..74d486692c 100644
--- a/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/web/profiles/__init__.py
+++ b/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/web/profiles/__init__.py
@@ -313,20 +313,26 @@ class DefaultProfile(object):
             soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(src)
             for item in soup.findAll('item'):
                 try:
+                    atitle = item.find('title')
+                    if not atitle:
+                        continue
+                    
+                    atitle = self.tag_to_string(atitle)
                     if self.use_pubdate:
                         pubdate = item.find('pubdate')
                         if not pubdate:
                             pubdate = item.find('dc:date')
                         if not pubdate or not pubdate.string:
-                            self.logger.debug('Skipping article as it does not have publication date')
+                            self.logger.debug('Skipping article %s as it does not have publication date'%atitle)
                             continue
                         pubdate = self.tag_to_string(pubdate)
                         pubdate = pubdate.replace('+0000', 'GMT')
                     
+                    
                     url = self.get_article_url(item)
                     url = self.tag_to_string(url)
                     if require_url and not url:
-                        self.logger.debug('Skipping article as it does not have a link url')
+                        self.logger.debug('Skipping article %s as it does not have a link url'%atitle)
                         continue
                     purl = url
                     try:
@@ -344,7 +350,7 @@ class DefaultProfile(object):
                         content = ''
                         
                     d = { 
-                        'title'    : self.tag_to_string(item.find('title')),                 
+                        'title'    : atitle,                 
                         'url'      : purl,
                         'timestamp': self.strptime(pubdate) if self.use_pubdate else time.time(),
                         'date'     : pubdate if self.use_pubdate else time.ctime(),
diff --git a/src/libprs500/web/fetch/simple.py b/src/libprs500/web/fetch/simple.py
index 50cb53038a..6fccaead74 100644
--- a/src/libprs500/web/fetch/simple.py
+++ b/src/libprs500/web/fetch/simple.py
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ class RecursiveFetcher(object):
                     if self.encoding is not None:
                         dsrc = dsrc.decode(self.encoding, 'ignore')
                     else:
-                        dsrc = xml_to_unicode(dsrc)
+                        dsrc = xml_to_unicode(dsrc, self.verbose)[0]
                     
                     soup = self.get_soup(dsrc)
                     self.logger.debug('Processing images...')