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Originally Posted by Tanjamuse
It would make it a lot easier to keep track of both new stories and updated ones with the RSS feed directly available in Calibre.
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If your sites had a RSS feed for your account's follows/alerts, then yeah, sure. But a site-wide feed would be too confusing; you'd have a _lot_ more stories that you don't care about than stories you do.
For example, I'm subscribed to SIYE's RSS, which has about two to three updates a day at best these days, but I'm only interested in maybe five a month (aside from the stories I actually follow).
The big sites (FFNet, AO3, even FimF) don't have RSS feeds anyways, aside from site-related news (downtimes, software upgrades, etc) and even then they're migrating to tweeter feeds. As far as I can see, the only way to get notices of story updates and/or new stories across all sites is by mail.
But yeah, aside from that it's an interesting idea. If we could find a way to convert mail alerts to an RSS feed, and use Calibre's RSS infrastructure to pass that feed to FFDL, we'd have something useful for a lot of people, I think.
How to do that without writing a bunch of separate tools is the real question.
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