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Old 02-19-2011, 08:23 AM   #2
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I took a look at that, and I can see why you'd have trouble. Lots of it.

In a typical feed, links to the articles are of a certain format, and you modify part of the link to get the printable article. For example, with my local paper, the Royal Oak Daily Tribune, you simply replace "txt" with "prt", and you're done. Very simple.

The Detroit News made it a bit more difficult, because each feed uses a different subsititution. But that just meant that I needed to work out what that substitution should be for each feed. Straightforward, but a lot more work.

The Plain Dealer uses a different substitution for every article in each feed. I'm new to Calibre, but I've used other similar types of programs for years and have never seen anything like that. On top of that, some of the articles don't use a simple substitution to get to the printable version, and I don't have any idea how to handle that.

So, I'm going to throw up my hands and hope a more advanced user will take this as a challenge. Sorry.
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