From 4bbc8df3abc2ce06d03633bd40e84c3292588211 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 14:26:13 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] py3: make pdb input work

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/pdb/header.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/pdb/header.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/pdb/header.py
index eb2a786dfd..efd0a1c3aa 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/pdb/header.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/pdb/header.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ class PdbHeaderReader(object):
     def identity(self):
         self.stream.seek(60)
         ident = self.stream.read(8)
-        return ident
+        return ident.decode('utf-8')
 
     def section_count(self):
         self.stream.seek(76)