Originally Posted by chaley
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.
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. Mike->Makes sense for a big collection of books. For news, it's not very complicated. I have calibre set up to run at a specific time via a windows task schedule. It downloads the Boston Globe newspaper for today, and deletes yesterday's edition on the PC. I sync it wirelessly, and need only to scan CC to see where there are dupes to manually delete. My request is to automate this on the device. It makes a lot of sense for news sources of course, but I can imagine that for real books it is at least possible someone would want to keep it on the device even after deleting it from the PC, so that option would be needed.
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 more easier.
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