diff --git a/resources/images/news/boortz.png b/resources/images/news/boortz.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ac806e8056
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diff --git a/resources/recipes/boortz.recipe b/resources/recipes/boortz.recipe
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a3b0f5fffe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/recipes/boortz.recipe
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+class AdvancedUserRecipe1282101454(BasicNewsRecipe):
+    title = 'Nealz Nuze'
+    language = 'en'
+    __author__ = 'TonytheBookworm'
+    description = 'Neal Boortz Show Radio Notes'
+    publisher = 'Neal Boortz'
+    category = 'news, politics, USA, talkshow'
+    oldest_article = 1
+    max_articles_per_feed = 100
+    linearize_tables = True
+    no_stylesheets = True
+    remove_javascript   = True
+
+    masthead_url = 'http://boortz.com/images/nuze_logo.gif'
+    keep_only_tags    = [
+                         dict(name='div', attrs={'id':['SiteContent']})
+                       #,dict(attrs={'id':['cxArticleText']})
+                        ]
+    remove_tags = [
+                   dict(name='a', attrs={'class':['blogPermalink']}),
+                   dict(name='span', attrs={'class':['blogBylineSeparator']}),
+                   dict(name='td', attrs={'id':['nealztitle']}),
+                   ]
+    remove_tags_after = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'blogEntryBody'}),]
+    feeds          = [
+                      ('NUZE', 'http://boortz.com/nealz_nuze_rss/rss.xml')
+
+                    ]
+
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diff --git a/src/calibre/devices/kobo/books.py b/src/calibre/devices/kobo/books.py
index cca4c005d7..24ec272bb1 100644
--- a/src/calibre/devices/kobo/books.py
+++ b/src/calibre/devices/kobo/books.py
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ class Book(Book_):
             self.authors = ['']
         else:
             self.authors = [authors]
+
+        if not title:
+            self.title = _('Unknown')
+
         self.mime = mime
 
         self.size = size # will be set later if None
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer.py
index 23f92d1fd2..37936d6016 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer.py
@@ -1696,11 +1696,12 @@ class MobiWriter(object):
         header.write(pack('>I', 1))
 
         # 0x1c - 0x1f : Text encoding ?
-        # GR: Language encoding for NCX entries (latin_1)
-        header.write(pack('>I', 0x4e4))
+        # header.write(pack('>I', 650001))
+        # GR: This needs to be either 0xFDE9 or 0x4E4
+        header.write(pack('>I', 0xFDE9))
 
-        # 0x20 - 0x23 : Mimicking kindleGen
-        header.write(pack('>I', 0xFFFFFFFF))
+        # 0x20 - 0x23 : Language code?
+        header.write(iana2mobi(str(self._oeb.metadata.language[0])))
 
         # 0x24 - 0x27 : Number of TOC entries in INDX1
         header.write(pack('>I', indxt_count + 1))
@@ -1800,7 +1801,7 @@ class MobiWriter(object):
         text = text.strip()
         if not isinstance(text, unicode):
             text = text.decode('utf-8', 'replace')
-        text = text.encode('cp1252','replace')
+        text = text.encode('ascii','replace')
         return text
 
     def _add_to_ctoc(self, ctoc_str, record_offset):
@@ -2150,26 +2151,6 @@ class MobiWriter(object):
         indxt.write(decint(self._ctoc_map[index]['titleOffset'], DECINT_FORWARD))	# vwi title offset in CNCX
         indxt.write(decint(0, DECINT_FORWARD))						# unknown byte
 
-    def _write_subchapter_node(self, indxt, indices, index, offset, length, count):
-        # This style works without a parent chapter, mimicking what KindleGen does,
-        # using a value of 0x0B for parentIndex
-        # Writes an INDX1 NCXEntry of entryType 0x1F - subchapter
-        if self.opts.verbose > 2:
-            # *** GR: Turn this off while I'm developing my code
-            #self._oeb.log.debug('Writing TOC node to IDXT:', node.title, 'href:', node.href)
-            pass
-
-        pos = 0xc0 + indxt.tell()
-        indices.write(pack('>H', pos))								# Save the offset for IDXTIndices
-        name = "%04X"%count
-        indxt.write(chr(len(name)) + name)							# Write the name
-        indxt.write(INDXT['subchapter'])						    # entryType [0x0F | 0xDF | 0xFF | 0x3F]
-        indxt.write(decint(offset, DECINT_FORWARD))					# offset
-        indxt.write(decint(length, DECINT_FORWARD))					# length
-        indxt.write(decint(self._ctoc_map[index]['titleOffset'], DECINT_FORWARD))	# vwi title offset in CNCX
-        indxt.write(decint(0, DECINT_FORWARD))						# unknown byte
-        indxt.write(decint(0xb, DECINT_FORWARD))				    # parentIndex - null
-
     def _compute_offset_length(self, i, node, entries) :
         h = node.href
         if h not in self._id_offsets:
diff --git a/src/calibre/library/database2.py b/src/calibre/library/database2.py
index fd5809f937..b674cbbb33 100644
--- a/src/calibre/library/database2.py
+++ b/src/calibre/library/database2.py
@@ -363,10 +363,10 @@ class LibraryDatabase2(LibraryDatabase, SchemaUpgrade, CustomColumns):
         return row[self.FIELD_MAP['path']].replace('/', os.sep)
 
 
-    def abspath(self, index, index_is_id=False):
+    def abspath(self, index, index_is_id=False, create_dirs=True):
         'Return the absolute path to the directory containing this books files as a unicode string.'
         path = os.path.join(self.library_path, self.path(index, index_is_id=index_is_id))
-        if not os.path.exists(path):
+        if create_dirs and not os.path.exists(path):
             os.makedirs(path)
         return path
 
@@ -657,7 +657,8 @@ class LibraryDatabase2(LibraryDatabase, SchemaUpgrade, CustomColumns):
     def has_cover(self, index, index_is_id=False):
         id = index if index_is_id else self.id(index)
         try:
-            path = os.path.join(self.abspath(id, index_is_id=True), 'cover.jpg')
+            path = os.path.join(self.abspath(id, index_is_id=True,
+                create_dirs=False), 'cover.jpg')
         except:
             # Can happen if path has not yet been set
             return False