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Originally Posted by sourcejedi
Reading the Calibre manual on recipes, the BBC example shows it following the link in the RSS, and then downloading the "printable" version of the article. Checking the API docs, it does that dereferencing automatically for all RSS articles under a certain length.
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Let me modify my previous point -- if content writers don't want their content manipulated, they need to stay off the web. Once they encode their content into HTML, it's fair game for rendering. The end user owns rendering, not the publisher. This could be anything from simply blocking ads, to re-styling or modifying the page using plugins like Stylish or Greasemonkey, to using accessibility tools like screen readers, to caching for later reading using any number of tools (including every browser's built-in cache).
The web is not print. The publisher does not have control over layout, presentation, format, form factor, time-shifting, place-shifting, or anything else other than raw content. If you're not okay with that, stick to paper magazines and newspapers.