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Sounds good because it preserves the automation. But I'm curious about this line in the new recipe:
self.log.warn('Kindle Output profile being used, reducing image quality to keep file size below amazon email threshold')
Does this mean that in order for the necessary compression to happen the Common Options "Page Setup" has to be set to one of the "Kindle" options. Otherwise how does calibre know this is a "Kindle Output"?
As has long been the case, if you set the Page Setup as any "Kindle", the resulting filename only includes the Title itself, but none of the Date information. For that reason, I have always used Generic E-ink HD as the page setup because that allows the inclusion of the date. Kindle itself has no problem displaying the dates, but calibre still prevents the dates from appearing in any specifically "Kindle" outputs. And, at least to me, the dates are really important on my Kindle so I know which issue to open.
I would hope that this doesn't create an either/or situation: you can either have dates, or files that are small enough to email, but you can't have both?
One solution is to remove the restriction on including dates in the "Kindle" outputs if that's possible. I'm wondering if that's a leftover from long ago when maybe the Kindle mobi files weren't compatible with the dates. But mobi is dead. Amazon now accepts epubs.
And I'd also note that while the New Yorker is a frequent culprit in creating gigantic files, The New York Times, The Spectator, and The Economist also occasionally break the bank - especially for "double" issues.
I use Fastmail because it allows a total email size of 70mb, but with encoding etc that usually means an attachment of 50mb. GMX is also 50mb, GMail only 25mb.
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