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kovidgoyal · 02-24-2009, 01:51 AM

As opposed to visiting the webpages of the stories via an RSS feed and saving them to your disk with the Save to disk function in a browser and then using calibre to convert the webpages to something readable on the reader?

But I get your larger point which is that news publishers are running out of funding sources and calibre isn't helping that. To do that I have to say that calibre does not deliberately strip out the ads. The ads are removed as a side effect of making the webpages legible on the reader. If the publishers wised up and included ads in a way that did not make teir websites unusable on the reader, there would be no need to strip the ads.

EDIT: Another purely legal point is tht calibre doesn't actually distribute the repackaged content. It would distribute the content if I set up a website and made the LRF/EPUB/MOBI files avaialble for download

EDIT2: And from a purely practical viewpoint, the way online adds works is by page views. calibre presents itself as the firefox browser, so it should still register as a pageview. In fact because it downloads *all* the articles, not just the ones you actually read, it's good for the publishers

02-24-2009, 01:51 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,382 Karma: 27756918 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	As opposed to visiting the webpages of the stories via an RSS feed and saving them to your disk with the Save to disk function in a browser and then using calibre to convert the webpages to something readable on the reader? But I get your larger point which is that news publishers are running out of funding sources and calibre isn't helping that. To do that I have to say that calibre does not deliberately strip out the ads. The ads are removed as a side effect of making the webpages legible on the reader. If the publishers wised up and included ads in a way that did not make teir websites unusable on the reader, there would be no need to strip the ads. EDIT: Another purely legal point is tht calibre doesn't actually distribute the repackaged content. It would distribute the content if I set up a website and made the LRF/EPUB/MOBI files avaialble for download EDIT2: And from a purely practical viewpoint, the way online adds works is by page views. calibre presents itself as the firefox browser, so it should still register as a pageview. In fact because it downloads all the articles, not just the ones you actually read, it's good for the publishers Last edited by kovidgoyal; 02-24-2009 at 02:00 AM.