Please make your mind up... either you want everything free and open or you don't...
as you don't use calibre then why are you so anti this invaluable file conversion and database tool... if any site objects to people using RSS feeds then they don't have to use them... all calibre does is automate the ability to download multiple feeds that different sites PROVIDE themselves... no difference to selecting multiple feeds with a browser or a dedicated RSS tool... all LEGAL and accepted tools and methods of handling RSS.
And you don't have to hack anything to download website content... browsers can save as archive/source, computers can print or print to pdf... no special tools, no hacks just normal usage...
and calibre is not adblocking software!!!
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Originally Posted by Giggleton
I'm assuming you use instapaper? It's basically the same thing, click a button and have the textual content of a website delivered to your ereader sans ads and the site does ask for donations. It's a hack in other words around the ads.
I am sure there are many who would agree with you, the question is should we subscribe to the notion and implement the idea? When adblocking software is outlawed only outlaws will use adblocking software i.e. Calibre
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