From d65f169f615ab11855acea3c49f8bdeb6024f40e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 21:24:45 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #4783 (issue when importing an HTML file with an a/@href
 containing &amp;)

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/html/input.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/html/input.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/html/input.py
index 0bb7fc327c..8d33023e43 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/html/input.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/html/input.py
@@ -408,7 +408,10 @@ class HTMLInput(InputFormatPlugin):
             return link_
         if base and not os.path.isabs(link):
             link = os.path.join(base, link)
-        link = os.path.abspath(link)
+        try:
+            link = os.path.abspath(link)
+        except:
+            return link_
         if not os.access(link, os.R_OK):
             return link_
         if os.path.isdir(link):