diff --git a/imxml2epub.py b/imxml2epub.py
index 06f766b..f42278e 100755
--- a/imxml2epub.py
+++ b/imxml2epub.py
@@ -707,12 +707,14 @@ class FootnoteError(Exception):
     don't try to mix-and-match
     """
     pass
+# class FootnoteError ends here
 
 intTechnicalChapterNumber = 1
 
 for xmlChapter in xmlChapters:
     groupings = libeoaconvert.get_bigfoot_data(xmlChapter)
     xmlFootnotes = list(xmlChapter.findall(".//note"))
+    print("here come the footnotes. found", len(xmlFootnotes))
     has_old = 0 != len(xmlFootnotes)
     has_new = 0 != len(
         [ # flatten the association list whose values are lists, so we can take the length
@@ -888,7 +890,6 @@ class FootnoteError(Exception):
     xmlHyperlinks = xmlChapter.findall(".//xref")
     for xmlHyperlink in xmlHyperlinks:
         strURL = xmlHyperlink.get('url')
-        print(strURL)
         if strURL.startswith("http://") == False:
             if strURL.startswith("https://") == False:
                 strURL = "http://" + strURL
@@ -1082,7 +1083,6 @@ class FootnoteError(Exception):
     xmlLetterheads = xmlChapter.xpath(".//EOAletterhead")
     for xmlLetterhead in xmlLetterheads:
         xmlRecipient = xmlLetterhead.find(".//Recipient")
-        print(etree.tostring(xmlRecipient))
         xmlRecipient.tag = "p"
         xmlRecipient.getchildren()[0].tag = "em"
         xmlArchive = xmlLetterhead.find(".//Archive")
@@ -1112,7 +1112,7 @@ class FootnoteError(Exception):
         xmlHeader = xmlTranscription.find(".//EOAtranscriptedheader")
         xmlHeader.tag = "tr"
         xmlLeftHeader = xmlTranscription.find(".//Leftheader")
-        print(xmlLeftHeader.text)
+        # print(xmlLeftHeader.text)
         xmlLeftHeader.tag = "td"
         xmlLeftHeader.set("style", "width: 50%")
         xmlRightHeader = xmlTranscription.find(".//Rightheader")
@@ -1153,7 +1153,7 @@ class FootnoteError(Exception):
     for xmlTable in xmlTables:
         xmlRawTable = xmlTable.find(".//table")
         strTableCaption = xmlTable.find(".//EOAtablecaption").text or ""
-        print("Working on ", strTableCaption)
+        # print("Working on ", strTableCaption)
         if strTableCaption != "nonumber":
             intTableNumber = dictTables[xmlTable.find(".//EOAtablelabel").text]
             xmlTableCaption = etree.Element("p")