From 614522802feac42cd23af2011fdde176cd81e90a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:48:01 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] IGN:Correct mobi.writer merge

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer.py
index dc501ad0f6..69aecba212 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer.py
@@ -247,11 +247,15 @@ class Serializer(object):
         if not item.linear:
             self.breaks.append(buffer.tell() - 1)
         self.id_offsets[item.href] = buffer.tell()
+        # Kindle periodical articles are contained in a <div> tag
+        buffer.write('<div>')
         for elem in item.data.find(XHTML('body')):
-            buffer.write('<a></a>')
             self.serialize_elem(elem, item)
+        # Kindle periodical article end marker
+        buffer.write('<div></div>')
         if self.write_page_breaks_after_item:
             buffer.write('<mbp:pagebreak/>')
+        buffer.write('</div>')
 
     def serialize_elem(self, elem, item, nsrmap=NSRMAP):
         buffer = self.buffer