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falcons75scp · 01-02-2012, 10:47 AM

Greetings all from a newbie to this forum. I'll start out by saying in my first post here, that I DID search through the forum to find this specific problem - but really had no luck.

I've been using several "built-in" recipes (for most of the last year) to keep up with the news while I travel. For the most part, I've been very pleased with the results. Some especially good recipes that I've used include the St Louis Post Dispatch, The Washington Post, USA Today, Wired Magazine, BBC & CNN.

I've also been pleased to have a "built-in" recipe available for my local paper (Tulsa World) which allows me to follow local stories on my reader while I am away from home. However, despite the fact that the recipe produces three sections (News, Business, & Opinion) - these three sections appear to be identical, as near as I can tell. If at all possible, I'd like to see a recipe that produces all the normal sections of my paper including Local, Scene & Sports and the columnists regularly featured in our paper.

I've tried with only marginal success to create a custom recipe. I do see more articles listed in each section of my custom recipe as compared to the built-in recipe. However generally, my custom recipe only produces only a line or two from each story in the appropriate section menu - and almost nothing of the article appears when I go to the link displayed in the section menu. The other common problem I get is: links to articles that only display reader comments to stories without displaying the story to which they are commenting. As you can imagine, this can be pretty frustrating.

If it helps any, I am a print subscriber to the Tulsa World - and have a registered email address that allows full online access to the paper. This works great on a computer, but I'd prefer to read my news on my e-reader. It appears that some recipes have provisions for allowing full access (e.g. New York Times, Wall Street Journal) by entering log-in credentials, but I don't see that feature for the Tulsa World recipe - maybe I don't know where to look.

Can anyone help either improve the built-in recipe for the Tulsa World in an upcoming Calibre update or come up with a good custom recipe?

Thanks in advance,

Steve

01-02-2012, 10:47 AM	#1
falcons75scp Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Tulsa, OK Device: Nook (Simple Touch & Color)	Tulsa World "Built-In" Recipe Greetings all from a newbie to this forum. I'll start out by saying in my first post here, that I DID search through the forum to find this specific problem - but really had no luck. I've been using several "built-in" recipes (for most of the last year) to keep up with the news while I travel. For the most part, I've been very pleased with the results. Some especially good recipes that I've used include the St Louis Post Dispatch, The Washington Post, USA Today, Wired Magazine, BBC & CNN. I've also been pleased to have a "built-in" recipe available for my local paper (Tulsa World) which allows me to follow local stories on my reader while I am away from home. However, despite the fact that the recipe produces three sections (News, Business, & Opinion) - these three sections appear to be identical, as near as I can tell. If at all possible, I'd like to see a recipe that produces all the normal sections of my paper including Local, Scene & Sports and the columnists regularly featured in our paper. I've tried with only marginal success to create a custom recipe. I do see more articles listed in each section of my custom recipe as compared to the built-in recipe. However generally, my custom recipe only produces only a line or two from each story in the appropriate section menu - and almost nothing of the article appears when I go to the link displayed in the section menu. The other common problem I get is: links to articles that only display reader comments to stories without displaying the story to which they are commenting. As you can imagine, this can be pretty frustrating. If it helps any, I am a print subscriber to the Tulsa World - and have a registered email address that allows full online access to the paper. This works great on a computer, but I'd prefer to read my news on my e-reader. It appears that some recipes have provisions for allowing full access (e.g. New York Times, Wall Street Journal) by entering log-in credentials, but I don't see that feature for the Tulsa World recipe - maybe I don't know where to look. Can anyone help either improve the built-in recipe for the Tulsa World in an upcoming Calibre update or come up with a good custom recipe? Thanks in advance, Steve