[alexxxm]

It's been a bit of time since I stopped reading the New York Times, because the size of the issue is levitating towards the 25-40 MB mark. This causes my Kindle DX to reset sometimes.

So I decided to try and edit nytimes.recipe, extracted from builtin_recipes.zip, renaming it to smallerNYTimes and adding it as a custom news source

I tried a lot of things:
1) reducing the web sections from 24 to just 5: World,U.S.,Politics,New York,Opinion
2) setting getTechBlogs = False
3) setting useHighResImages = False
4) setting one_picture_per_article = True
... and maybe more, I forgot

Results: what I did amounted to small oscillations in size, at most down to 32.1 MB, from the 40.7 MB of today's edition.

What is it so heavy that the recipe downloads?

thanks for your help...