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Originally Posted by toddos
RSS feeds can contain as much or as little content as a publisher wants. If they don't want to "give away" their content, their RSS feed can consist of nothing more than a link to the web page, and calibre won't follow the link to pull down the actual content.
If someone doesn't want their content read by RSS readers (and there are plenty of caching RSS readers besides calibre), then they shouldn't put their content in an RSS feeds. Stop blaming the users for dumb publishers.
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I guess I simplified it a bit, Calibre allows for the download and reading of virtually any website, via reading devices that were not intended to be used by the site's creator. Specifically via reading devices that do not display the advertisements contained on the original content's site. This causes economic harm to those site's due to bandwidth usage without revenue gain from advertising. To me it's all academic since I use adblocking software, ads just aren't relevant enough IMO, perhaps that will change though.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
I like Calibre too.
