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Old 01-17-2011, 04:07 PM   #1
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New York Times Proposed Recipe Change

For those who occasionally buy the paid version of the New York Times on your Kindle, or who have dropped the paid version to use the Calibre version of the New York Times, I made a small modification to the New York Times recipe that I would love to have included in the official version.

Currently the Kindle keeps the most current version of a periodical on the home page and you cannot move it anywhere (archive to back issue, or to a collection). If you have been subscribing to the NYT for the Kindle it is called "The New York Times", but when you download the Calibre version it is called "New York Times." In the change I made, the Calibre version is called "The New York Times" and thus will push any old Kindle versions of the paper into the Back Issues collection so you don't have a month old copy of the NYT sitting on your home page.

This is set by a boolean much like the headlines version and the non-subscription version. The boolean is simply called "replaceKindleVersion" and it is at the top of the recipe.

The Kindle currently has the largest portion of the e-reader market (regardless of DRM issues, yeah, I know) and I think it is worth while to have a NYT version that is well integrated with the Kindle.

The updated code is attached. The updated code also includes my fix from earlier today in the postprocess_html method.

Thanks =)
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