It's not the related articles, appearing after the main article, that are the problem -- I know how to turn them off with the recursions variable and they've been a part of the recipe for months. It's the "related coverage" sidebar and its ilk that appear in the middle of the article and are pretty useless to anyone on an e-reader.
Another example in today's paper is the "interactive graphic" sidebar five paragraphs into this article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/us...onopolies.html In the edition that Calibre generated today, it's not even a link, it's just a tiny picture of the graphic, the words "interactive graphic", and then in much larger text, "Who Controls the States and Where They Stand." It's not a huge deal, but it's pointless cruft that I'm sure was not intentionally pulled into the Calibre edition.
Again, not the biggest issue in the world (it was much worse when I originally posted) but I figured I'd try to inform the recipe's author about it.