First, I apologize for my misstatement above. I believed that calibre had a feature to clean news on a device in addition to its feature to clean news in the library. I don't use news so I never had a reason to discover that I was wrong.
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Originally Posted by NSILMike
Perhaps, but the description of its function (UI plugin to check for duplicate/missing/added books when ejecting devices) is also unrelated to my request.
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Not if I understand your request. You want something to delete news "books" on your device when they expire. As you pointed out, Calibre has a feature that deletes these books from its library as they age. Smart eject could tell you that you have news books on your device that are not in calibre's library, telling you which books you should delete from your device to make it match what is in calibre.
At the moment you would need to use a search in Smart eject that checks the title of the book, which is less than optimal if you have many news sources. I will look at whether I can add searching on tags to the device view, which would make the process easier.
EDIT: Starting with the next calibre release you will be able to search for tags in the device view. A book in the device view will have tags if it was put on the device by calibre or if it ever matched a book in calibre's library. For example, "tags:news" will find items on the device that have the news tag, which any news "book" put on the device by calibre will have.