From 966faf7dce599849ddea21cecdc85f025a71f627 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 19:45:02 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Fix loading of metadata cache from device broken in calibre 5

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/book/json_codec.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/book/json_codec.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/book/json_codec.py
index 2eb23a6d0e..45fc6e14b7 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/book/json_codec.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/book/json_codec.py
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ class JsonCodec(object):
     def decode_from_file(self, file_, booklist, book_class, prefix):
         js = []
         try:
-            js = json.load(file_, encoding='utf-8')
+            js = json.load(file_)
             for item in js:
                 entry = self.raw_to_book(item, book_class, prefix)
                 if entry is not None: