diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/chardet/__init__.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/chardet/__init__.py
index af6d724883..971ac9bc9a 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/chardet/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/chardet/__init__.py
@@ -99,7 +99,8 @@ def xml_to_unicode(raw, verbose=False, strip_encoding_pats=False,
         try:
             raw = raw.decode(encoding, 'replace')
         except LookupError:
-            raw = raw.decode('utf-8', 'replace')
+            encoding = 'utf-8'
+            raw = raw.decode(encoding, 'replace')
     
     if strip_encoding_pats:
         raw = strip_encoding_declarations(raw)
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/epub/from_html.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/epub/from_html.py
index ffe402538f..47d278a2b6 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/epub/from_html.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/epub/from_html.py
@@ -197,6 +197,9 @@ class HTMLProcessor(Processor, Rationalizer):
             if not tag.text and not tag.get('src', False):
                 tag.getparent().remove(tag)
                 
+        for tag in self.root.xpath('//form'):
+            tag.getparent().remove(tag)
+                
         if self.opts.linearize_tables:
             for tag in self.root.xpath('//table | //tr | //th | //td'):
                 tag.tag = 'div'
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/lrf/html/convert_from.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/lrf/html/convert_from.py
index 056666b301..9ec4857126 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/lrf/html/convert_from.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/lrf/html/convert_from.py
@@ -99,6 +99,10 @@ class HTMLConverter(object):
                         # Replace common line break patterns with line breaks
                         (re.compile(r'<p>(&nbsp;|\s)*</p>', re.IGNORECASE), lambda m: '<br />'),
                         
+                        # Replace empty headers with line breaks
+                        (re.compile(r'<h[0-5]?>(&nbsp;|\s)*</h[0-5]?>', 
+                                    re.IGNORECASE), lambda m: '<br />'),
+                        
                         # Replace entities
                         (re.compile(ur'&(\S+?);'), partial(entity_to_unicode, 
                                                            exceptions=['lt', 'gt', 'amp'])),
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/lrf/meta.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/lrf/meta.py
index 322835f470..6ec87892d6 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/lrf/meta.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/lrf/meta.py
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ class LRFMetaFile(object):
         """ See L{file.write} """
         self._file.write(val)
         
-    def objects(self):
+    def _objects(self):
         self._file.seek(self.object_index_offset)
         c = self.number_of_objects
         while c > 0:
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ class LRFMetaFile(object):
     def get_objects_by_type(self, type):
         from calibre.ebooks.lrf.tags import Tag
         objects = []
-        for id, offset, size in self.objects():
+        for id, offset, size in self._objects():
             self._file.seek(offset)
             tag = Tag(self._file)
             if tag.id == 0xF500:
@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ class LRFMetaFile(object):
     
     def get_object_by_id(self, tid):
         from calibre.ebooks.lrf.tags import Tag
-        for id, offset, size in self.objects():
+        for id, offset, size in self._objects():
             self._file.seek(offset)
             tag = Tag(self._file)
             if tag.id == 0xF500:
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/lit.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/lit.py
index 7b3c873b38..071111e0f7 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/lit.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/lit.py
@@ -19,14 +19,22 @@ def get_metadata(stream):
     for item in opf.iterguide():
         if 'cover' not in item.get('type', '').lower():
             continue
+        ctype = item.get('type')
         href = item.get('href', '')
         candidates = [href, href.replace('&', '%26')]
         for item in litfile.manifest.values():
             if item.path in candidates:
-                covers.append(item.internal)
+                try:
+                    covers.append((litfile.get_file('/data/'+item.internal), 
+                                   ctype))
+                except:
+                    pass
                 break
-    covers = [litfile.get_file('/data/' + i) for i in covers]
-    covers.sort(cmp=lambda x, y:cmp(len(x), len(y)))
-    mi.cover_data = ('jpg', covers[-1])
+    covers.sort(cmp=lambda x, y:cmp(len(x[0]), len(y[0])), reverse=True)
+    idx = 0
+    if len(covers) > 1:
+        if covers[1][1] == covers[1][0]+'-standard':
+            idx = 1
+    mi.cover_data = ('jpg', covers[idx][0])
     return mi
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader.py
index 7708dc768a..85057017a6 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader.py
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ class MobiReader(object):
         mobi_version = self.book_header.mobi_version
         for i, tag in enumerate(root.iter(etree.Element)):
             if tag.tag in ('country-region', 'place', 'placetype', 'placename',
-                           'state', 'city'):
+                           'state', 'city', 'street', 'address'):
                 tag.tag = 'span'
                 for key in tag.attrib.keys():
                     tag.attrib.pop(key)
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/config.py b/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/config.py
index 5353f24544..9958ce53fa 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/config.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/config.py
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ class ConfigDialog(QDialog, Ui_Dialog):
             self.language.addItem(language_codes[lang], QVariant(lang))
         else:
             lang = 'en'
-            self.language.addItem('English', 'en')
+            self.language.addItem('English', QVariant('en'))
         items = [(l, language_codes[l]) for l in translations.keys() \
                  if l != lang]
         if lang != 'en':
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/main.py b/src/calibre/gui2/main.py
index 163a9d8bd0..4ecfc08f58 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/main.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/main.py
@@ -1406,7 +1406,15 @@ class Main(MainWindow, Ui_MainWindow):
                 dir = os.path.expanduser('~/Library')
             self.library_path = os.path.abspath(dir)
         if not os.path.exists(self.library_path):
-            os.makedirs(self.library_path)
+            try:
+                os.makedirs(self.library_path)
+            except:
+                self.library_path = os.path.expanduser('~/Library')
+                error_dialog(self, _('Invalid library location'), 
+                     _('Could not access %s. Using %s as the library.')%
+                     (repr(self.library_path), repr(self.library_path)) 
+                             ).exec_()
+                os.makedirs(self.library_path)
 
 
     def read_settings(self):
diff --git a/src/calibre/trac/donations/server.py b/src/calibre/trac/donations/server.py
index 8e7a096353..24174db801 100644
--- a/src/calibre/trac/donations/server.py
+++ b/src/calibre/trac/donations/server.py
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ class Server(object):
     
     def calculate_month_trend(self, days=31):
         stats = self.get_slice(date.today()-timedelta(days=days-1), date.today())
-        fig = plt.figure(2, (12, 4), 96)#, facecolor, edgecolor, frameon, FigureClass)
+        fig = plt.figure(2, (10, 4), 96)#, facecolor, edgecolor, frameon, FigureClass)
         fig.clear()
         ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
         x = list(range(days-1, -1, -1))
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ Donors per day: %(dpd).2f
                  ad=stats.average_deviation,
                  dpd=len(stats.totals)/float(stats.period.days),
              )
-        text = ax.annotate(text, (0.6, 0.65), textcoords='axes fraction')
+        text = ax.annotate(text, (0.5, 0.65), textcoords='axes fraction')
         fig.savefig(self.MONTH_TRENDS)
     
     def calculate_trend(self):
diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/__init__.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/__init__.py
index 3f0ec414a2..4a0f6b47f7 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/feeds/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/__init__.py
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ class Feed(object):
             if len(self.articles) >= max_articles_per_feed:
                 break
             self.parse_article(item)
-            
+        
         
     def populate_from_preparsed_feed(self, title, articles, oldest_article=7, 
                            max_articles_per_feed=100):
@@ -156,7 +156,6 @@ class Feed(object):
             content = None
         if not link and not content:
             return
-        
         article = Article(id, title, link, description, published, content)
         delta = datetime.utcnow() - article.utctime
         if delta.days*24*3600 + delta.seconds <= 24*3600*self.oldest_article:
diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py
index 7d61cead5b..bcc3cb050d 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py
@@ -1011,7 +1011,8 @@ class BasicNewsRecipe(object):
                 feed.description = unicode(err)
                 parsed_feeds.append(feed)
                 self.log_exception(msg)
-                
+        
+        
         return parsed_feeds
     
     @classmethod
diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
index b2c18b26a8..793d5cf45d 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ recipe_modules = ['recipe_' + r for r in (
            'la_republica', 'physics_today', 'chicago_tribune', 'e_novine',
            'al_jazeera', 'winsupersite', 'borba', 'courrierinternational',
            'lamujerdemivida', 'soldiers', 'theonion', 'news_times',
-           'el_universal', 'mediapart', 'wikinews_en', 'ecogeek',
+           'el_universal', 'mediapart', 'wikinews_en', 'ecogeek', 'daily_mail',
           )]
 
 import re, imp, inspect, time, os
diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_daily_mail.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_daily_mail.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c64e328bf2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_daily_mail.py
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+
+class TheDailyMail(BasicNewsRecipe):
+    title          = u'The Daily Mail'
+    oldest_article = 2
+    language = _('English')
+    author = 'RufusA'
+    simultaneous_downloads= 1
+    max_articles_per_feed = 50
+
+    extra_css = 'h1 {text-align: left;}'
+
+    remove_tags = [ dict(name='ul', attrs={'class':'article-icons-links'}) ]
+    remove_tags_after  = dict(name='h3', attrs={'class':'social-links-title'})
+    remove_tags_before  = dict(name='div', attrs={'id':'content'})
+    no_stylesheets = True
+    
+    feeds          = [
+	(u'Home', u'http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.rss'),
+	(u'News', u'http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/index.rss'),
+	(u'Sport', u'http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/index.rss'),
+	(u'TV and Showbiz', u'http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/index.rss'),
+	(u'Femail', u'http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/index.rss'),
+	(u'Health', u'http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/index.rss'),
+	(u'Science and Technology', u'http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/index.rss'),
+	(u'Money', u'http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/index.rss'),
+	(u'Property', u'http://www.dailymail.co.uk/property/index.rss'),
+	(u'Motoring', u'http://www.dailymail.co.uk/motoring/index.rss'),
+	(u'Travel', u'http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/index.rss')]
+
+    def print_version(self, url):
+        main = url.partition('?')[0]
+        return main + '?printingPage=true'
diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_iht.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_iht.py
index c30be70dea..1bee27d061 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_iht.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_iht.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ __copyright__ = '2008, Derry FitzGerald'
 '''
 iht.com
 '''
+import re
 
 from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
 from calibre.ptempfile import PersistentTemporaryFile
@@ -16,7 +17,12 @@ class InternationalHeraldTribune(BasicNewsRecipe):
     max_articles_per_feed = 10
     no_stylesheets = True
 
-    remove_tags    = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'footer'})]
+    remove_tags    = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'footer'}),
+                      dict(name=['form'])]
+    preprocess_regexps = [
+            (re.compile(r'<!-- webtrends.*', re.DOTALL), 
+             lambda m:'</body></html>')
+                          ]
     extra_css      = '.headline {font-size: x-large;} \n .fact { padding-top: 10pt  }' 
 
     feeds          = [