Given that the auto-connect feature is used primarily to download news and given requests such as NSILMike's, I decided to implement automatic deleting of news "books" after some time, matching what calibre does. If a book has the tag "News" and the author "calibre" (both case sensitive) then it is a candidate for deletion.
There are three new preferences:
- A checkbox to turn on auto-deletion
- A text preference to specify the "News" tag. This is necessary because in calibre the tag is controled by the language setting.
- The number of days to wait. The deletion process runs at midnight, and if at that instant the book is older than this number of days then it will be deleted. This means that a book will persist from N to almost N+1 days.
The preferences screens are shown below.
I intend to release this feature to beta this weekend.
Comments?