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Old 11-19-2022, 10:24 AM   #45
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This morning, Sat Nov 19 at 6:00am PST, NYT recipe auto-downloaded correctly today's paper. I briefly checked the "Front Page" articles against those on the NYT "Today's Paper" website in my browser and they're a perfect match.

Go figure!

So sometimes the content of "Today's Paper" in the Internet Archive is up to date and other times it's hopelessly behind.

A suggestion, especially since this is a " major" publication: leave both recipes, the regular plus the " way back" versions, in calibre as built in recipes. Maybe add an explanatory note in each about the NYT sometimes blocking the one and the Internet Archive sometimes being slow to update the other. Maybe title this new one "New York Times (archived)" or "New York Times (wayback)" or ... whatever, to distinguish it from the regular version

Then let people pick their poison, one or both.

Including the web version, that would mean three recipes for the NYT. Hopefully one will work when the others don't on any given day.

And for those who would prefer the regular recipe, it would avoid a user trying to amateurishly tweak the "wayback" version's code to restore it to the non-wayback version. Seems like a lot of code was added that's certainly over my head!

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