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dhell · 11-04-2014, 12:51 AM

[ Reasons right now mean I can only use Calibre 0.7.28, last version, for Mac OS X 10.5.8 ].

I have downloaded The Guardian/Observer for many weeks with this. Last week, about Oct 27, 28 only some pages became available to read, the remainder the URLs only, those entries always at the end of each page. Thereafter I received only the URLs, no pages at all. I have tried various ways to resolve that, but not being so softwarish, and finding 'python' hard to understand (and apparently anyway requires indents. Hmm?), I was not successful. Oh AND the Guardian web sights are now rather different from what they were up to a week ago, that is ... changed.
I can see each subject title being downloaded in sequence. The resulting table of contents set works fine. But click on a page title and get only the URL.

I tried to set up the feed[], based on the Daily Telegraph feed [] set, but observe the guardian.recipe is currently rather different from the telegraph.recipe, and the Guardian I tried, in my lack of knowledge and meaning, says 'no!'. This is all perhaps a significant montypython software construct.

It has been easy to set the ignore section[] -- in my case 'Sport', although seemed not to work for 'Observer Sport' -- but there is no way I see to ADD other sections I want, presumably not "basic" enough for the aroma of beautiful.soup <s>

So please, software pythons wind around these things and squeeze them to rights.

11-04-2014, 12:51 AM	#2
dhell Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2014 Device: Calibre	[ Reasons right now mean I can only use Calibre 0.7.28, last version, for Mac OS X 10.5.8 ]. I have downloaded The Guardian/Observer for many weeks with this. Last week, about Oct 27, 28 only some pages became available to read, the remainder the URLs only, those entries always at the end of each page. Thereafter I received only the URLs, no pages at all. I have tried various ways to resolve that, but not being so softwarish, and finding 'python' hard to understand (and apparently anyway requires indents. Hmm?), I was not successful. Oh AND the Guardian web sights are now rather different from what they were up to a week ago, that is ... changed. I can see each subject title being downloaded in sequence. The resulting table of contents set works fine. But click on a page title and get only the URL. I tried to set up the feed[], based on the Daily Telegraph feed [] set, but observe the guardian.recipe is currently rather different from the telegraph.recipe, and the Guardian I tried, in my lack of knowledge and meaning, says 'no!'. This is all perhaps a significant montypython software construct. It has been easy to set the ignore section[] -- in my case 'Sport', although seemed not to work for 'Observer Sport' -- but there is no way I see to ADD other sections I want, presumably not "basic" enough for the aroma of beautiful.soup <s> So please, software pythons wind around these things and squeeze them to rights.