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Waldo3 · 03-15-2013, 09:06 PM

Calibre V.0.9.23. I am enormously impressed with the quality and general behavior of the Calibre periodical recipes. Many of these, particularly for the NYT, Economist, etc. are outstanding. It is clearly an ongoing challenge to keep these working correctly in the light of frequent changes to the related websites, particularly when some of the websites such as Bloomberg / Business Week do not even maintain conventional RSS feeds.

In the past few weeks I've noticed what is probably a website-change related problem with the NYT name / password recipe. Many if not most article links now actually contain several articles merged under the same title. For example, an article on the Metropolitan Opera in the Friday 3/15/13 edition contained a total of 8 articles concatenated together.

It appears that the original article of the 8 contains a link section at the end called "Related Articles" The recipe appears to be appending the text of all of these articles to the original, and possibly even chaining multiple articles each of which contains more links at the end.

Although this could be a pleasing option, it is causing my Kindle Keyboard to either take a very long time to open a new article or to eventually crash / reset in some cases.

The total file size as a result is also bulking up considerably. On Friday 3/15 the NYT Mobi file was 13MB. On Sunday a week or two ago it was over 20MB, and would not even open on the Kindle Keyboard and subsequently crashed.

As a temporary workaround, I discovered that it was possible to convert the problematic Mobi to Epub format using onlineconvert.com. The resulting epub also reduced in size from 13MB to 7MB and appeared to correctly maintain the TOC. This reads fine in the Windows Firefox ePub reader. However, the multiple concatenated articles still remain the same in the epub version.

As far as the KKeyboard crashes are concerned, I am beginning to wonder if there are possibly two problems - one related to the multiple articles and another related to the large file size or complex TOC / article linkages.

03-15-2013, 09:06 PM	#1
Waldo3 Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2013 Device: Kindle	NY Times - Multiple articles problem Calibre V.0.9.23. I am enormously impressed with the quality and general behavior of the Calibre periodical recipes. Many of these, particularly for the NYT, Economist, etc. are outstanding. It is clearly an ongoing challenge to keep these working correctly in the light of frequent changes to the related websites, particularly when some of the websites such as Bloomberg / Business Week do not even maintain conventional RSS feeds. In the past few weeks I've noticed what is probably a website-change related problem with the NYT name / password recipe. Many if not most article links now actually contain several articles merged under the same title. For example, an article on the Metropolitan Opera in the Friday 3/15/13 edition contained a total of 8 articles concatenated together. It appears that the original article of the 8 contains a link section at the end called "Related Articles" The recipe appears to be appending the text of all of these articles to the original, and possibly even chaining multiple articles each of which contains more links at the end. Although this could be a pleasing option, it is causing my Kindle Keyboard to either take a very long time to open a new article or to eventually crash / reset in some cases. The total file size as a result is also bulking up considerably. On Friday 3/15 the NYT Mobi file was 13MB. On Sunday a week or two ago it was over 20MB, and would not even open on the Kindle Keyboard and subsequently crashed. As a temporary workaround, I discovered that it was possible to convert the problematic Mobi to Epub format using onlineconvert.com. The resulting epub also reduced in size from 13MB to 7MB and appeared to correctly maintain the TOC. This reads fine in the Windows Firefox ePub reader. However, the multiple concatenated articles still remain the same in the epub version. As far as the KKeyboard crashes are concerned, I am beginning to wonder if there are possibly two problems - one related to the multiple articles and another related to the large file size or complex TOC / article linkages.