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Old 07-18-2010, 07:39 PM   #1
vega07
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How to remove dates from news feed

I subscribe to 10+ news feeds on calibre and love it. But I have one huge gripe. Calibre automatically adds the date to the titles of all my news feeds (except USA Today). As a result, Kindle does not put old issues into the "Back Issues" folder because it recognizes all issues as a different magazine/newspaper, resulting in pages and pages of old periodicals. How do I remove these dates automatically upon fetching? I opened the recipes with TextEdit (I have a Mac) and added [timefmt = ''] below the description for instance:

Quote:
class Economist(BasicNewsRecipe):

title = 'The Economist'
timefmt = ''
language = 'en'

__author__ = "Kovid Goyal"
INDEX = 'http://www.economist.com/printedition'
description = ('Global news and current affairs from a European perspective.'
' Needs a subscription from ')+INDEX
However, this does not remove the date.

Can anyone help?

I also have another question. I want to keep only the two most recent issues for each periodical. How do I make calibre or Kindle delete the rest on my Kindle to save space?

Thanks so much in advance.

eta: I zero skills in CSS, or any other script knowledge for that matter. But I am more than willing to learn the basic stuff.

Last edited by vega07; 07-18-2010 at 07:42 PM.
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