From e519095956617c59d8a9b87b2434c70e9e9eda8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:02:04 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/reader.py | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/reader.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/reader.py
index fbad7300dd..e83d60a28c 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/reader.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/reader.py
@@ -318,15 +318,15 @@ class OEBReader(object):
                 continue
             item = manifest.ids[idref]
             spine.add(item, elem.get('linear'))
-        if len(spine) == 0:
-            raise OEBError("Spine is empty")
-        self._spine_add_extra()
         for item in spine:
             if item.media_type.lower() not in OEB_DOCS:
                 if not hasattr(item.data, 'xpath'):
                     self.oeb.log.warn('The item %s is not a XML document.'
                             ' Removing it from spine.'%item.href)
                     spine.remove(item)
+        if len(spine) == 0:
+            raise OEBError("Spine is empty")
+        self._spine_add_extra()
 
     def _guide_from_opf(self, opf):
         guide = self.oeb.guide