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Originally Posted by NSILMike
I doubt it is an image issue, since when I run the NYT automatically it hangs, and when I stop that process and run it manually it downloads in a few seconds. And the time of day doesn't seem to make any difference either.
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I stated on Jun 5 that I would try downloading for a while without images.
Since the point at which the downloads stall always seems to be at an image, I've also just tweaked both NYT and WSJ recipes to exclude images by adding "dict(name='img')" to the Remove Tags section of each. I'll watch them for a week or so to see if that helps. (I subscribe to both and can always see the photos in the phone apps or on the web.)
I have been doing that now for almost three weeks and I find that by and large the recipes for New York Times and The Wall Street Journal download reliably each day. There are still occasional instances where the recipe gets stuck and keeps spinning forever, but not like before. The downloads are also now quite small, only about 1MB instead of 7-20; so most of the full downloads must be images! (For example, today, without images, the WSJ was .7mb, NYT daily paper .8mb, and the NYT web 1.1mb)
In addition to the Wall Street Journal, I am now also downloading
both the NY Times recipes (the daily paper and the web edition). I figure if one fails, hopefully I'll get the other. So far, I usually get both without problems.
So far so good. I can live without all the images on a Kindle. I do have paid subscriptions to both and can see all the images I want in my phone apps or on the web.
There is still an occasional problem with the Wall Street Journal not downloading all the sections of the paper. This is odd. You can download the recipe five times in a row and never get the same number of sections, and even if you get the same number they aren't the same sections! But omitting the images seems to help with this, though it's still not perfect.