[MansfieldMan]

As a newbie, can someone please point me to documentation, or educate me, about how Calibre handles periodicals that require paid subscriptions for full content?

As I scan the list of news periodicals in Calibre, the titles don't appear to indicate whether subscriptions are required.

If you DO have a paid subscription (such as I do, to the Washington Post), is it necessary to create one's own custom recipe to get full content? The standard WaPo recipe in Calibre just brings in the free content. I have now created a custom recipe by adding the "needs_subscription = True" line, but I'm wondering if this is always what must be done, and whether there's any way to know which periodicals are restricted.

Thanks!