From 4b965a8f421336035dcb440be5405803573ada33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:08:52 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/library_thing.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/library_thing.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/library_thing.py
index eaff881ede..3a78204e8e 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/library_thing.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/library_thing.py
@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ def get_social_metadata(title, authors, publisher, isbn, username=None,
 
         raw = br.open_novisit('http://www.librarything.com/isbn/'
                     +isbn).read()
+        if not raw:
+            return mi
         root = html.fromstring(raw)
         h1 = root.xpath('//div[@class="headsummary"]/h1')
         if h1 and not mi.title: