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I was going to post this in the development subforum, which is the most logical subforum for making this kind of suggestion, but the 'read this before posting' sticky thread said "This subforum is not the place for....enhancement proposals unless you make clear in your post that you are prepared to develop the enhancements yourself...". It also inconveniently neglected to recommend where to post suggestions, and no subforum description seems to welcome suggestions, so I'm putting it here. If this is the wrong place, then please make an obvious place.

I want to suggest the following changes to News downloading:

Calibre should be used only to configure the scheduling of downloads, but not automatically initiate any downloads at all, either upon calibre bootup or by schedule. It should only optionally allow the user to manually initiate a download.

Instead, all scheduled downloads of News should be done by calibre-server while it's running. This way I won't have to start calibre every damned day just to initiate a news download, and won't have to leave it running to do scheduled downloads - that's the job of server software running 24/7, not client software which is started only on logins. I also won't have to wait and wait for News download jobs to finish every time I start calibre to make some quick adjustments. (I don't like interrupting jobs, but don't like them interrupting me either.)

If there's anyone who, for whatever reason, doesn't want this change, and still wants calibre to do it the current way, then it should be easy enough to include a setting to restore everything to calibre for backward compatibility.

This rearrangement of the way News downloads are done would be a great improvement for News.