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sricochet · 10-21-2023, 01:07 AM

Thanks for the quick response, Kovid.

After getting annoyed that the optional username and password would result in a 404 error as described above, I downloaded the news recipe without a login, and compared the subscription pdf offered by the scientificamerican.com website and the fetched news feed from calibre without password.

while the headlines are different, and the order of the articles are different, all the articles appear to be in the password-free edition, word for word, as well as the images.

So to conclude, the password is indeed, as the recipe says, optional, and in fact there seems to be a block or something on the website, or just plain not functioning, with password access.

If you appreciate Scientific American, support it with a subscription. And maybe supplement the subscription with the news feed. But understand that the password login caused, for me at least, the recipe to fail.

I'm not sure if this was worth the effort.

10-21-2023, 01:07 AM	#3
sricochet Enthusiast Posts: 28 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2014 Device: Kindle Scribe	Thanks for the quick response, Kovid. After getting annoyed that the optional username and password would result in a 404 error as described above, I downloaded the news recipe without a login, and compared the subscription pdf offered by the scientificamerican.com website and the fetched news feed from calibre without password. while the headlines are different, and the order of the articles are different, all the articles appear to be in the password-free edition, word for word, as well as the images. So to conclude, the password is indeed, as the recipe says, optional, and in fact there seems to be a block or something on the website, or just plain not functioning, with password access. If you appreciate Scientific American, support it with a subscription. And maybe supplement the subscription with the news feed. But understand that the password login caused, for me at least, the recipe to fail. I'm not sure if this was worth the effort.