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avid01 · 10-09-2016, 04:16 PM

The NY Times offers 10 or 20? free articles per month (the Google hits confuse me for these numbers), in all fairness, I don't read that much NY Times in a year, however in whichever browser (and from whichever IP) I'm trying, it simply redirects me to this page: https://myaccount.nytimes.com/ - without mentioning any quotas. I'm trying to get a simple article from 2013, if that matters. (I'm not sure: do they just want me to create a free account which gives me access to this one old article? I don't know, the page doesn't tell anything.)

Anyways, the last time I remember I tried some magic to get a NY Times article to my Kindle (was about a month ago), it wasn't as simple anymore as it used to be. My 3 offline options I use to get any article to my Kindle, one of the 3 use to work:

- Save complete web page, import to Calibre (works 98% of the time, even worked on the older NY Times, too, not the new one)

My two failover modes:
- The GrabMyBooks browser plug-in - the result is not always satisfying. Sometimes it is.
- Copy the text from the web page, paste it to a LibreOffice Writer document, export to ODT, import to Kindle - It's far from being perfect on some fancy web page layouts, which the new NY Times site is.

I don't want to wait a month or so for this article (and I'm not even sure my quota is the issue, but I don't read the NY Times that much, barely at all), the first question is: let's say I want to instruct a friend to get this article to me from his IP and browser setup. Which of my above 3 methods work best for simply getting the article in ebook format from the current version of the site? For the question to remain geeky enough, let's forget about any mobile apps, just the web as input, and an ebook file as output.

Second, I'd truly appreciate any nice reader with a subscription (if that's the missing link at all!) to send me the article here in the topic, or in PM, I'd truly appreciate it, but even if we go the second route, the first question is still an important question in general, for the 2% of sites which don't work with my preferred web to ebook method.

10-09-2016, 04:16 PM	#1
avid01 Addict Posts: 300 Karma: 2000410 Join Date: Jan 2012 Device: Kindle 4	Best practice currently to get a single NY Times article to an e-reader offline? The NY Times offers 10 or 20? free articles per month (the Google hits confuse me for these numbers), in all fairness, I don't read that much NY Times in a year, however in whichever browser (and from whichever IP) I'm trying, it simply redirects me to this page: https://myaccount.nytimes.com/ - without mentioning any quotas. I'm trying to get a simple article from 2013, if that matters. (I'm not sure: do they just want me to create a free account which gives me access to this one old article? I don't know, the page doesn't tell anything.) Anyways, the last time I remember I tried some magic to get a NY Times article to my Kindle (was about a month ago), it wasn't as simple anymore as it used to be. My 3 offline options I use to get any article to my Kindle, one of the 3 use to work: - Save complete web page, import to Calibre (works 98% of the time, even worked on the older NY Times, too, not the new one) My two failover modes: - The GrabMyBooks browser plug-in - the result is not always satisfying. Sometimes it is. - Copy the text from the web page, paste it to a LibreOffice Writer document, export to ODT, import to Kindle - It's far from being perfect on some fancy web page layouts, which the new NY Times site is. I don't want to wait a month or so for this article (and I'm not even sure my quota is the issue, but I don't read the NY Times that much, barely at all), the first question is: let's say I want to instruct a friend to get this article to me from his IP and browser setup. Which of my above 3 methods work best for simply getting the article in ebook format from the current version of the site? For the question to remain geeky enough, let's forget about any mobile apps, just the web as input, and an ebook file as output. Second, I'd truly appreciate any nice reader with a subscription (if that's the missing link at all!) to send me the article here in the topic, or in PM, I'd truly appreciate it, but even if we go the second route, the first question is still an important question in general, for the 2% of sites which don't work with my preferred web to ebook method. Last edited by avid01; 10-12-2016 at 01:09 PM.