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Originally Posted by jj2me

For Custom recipes, they show up in the Calibre GUI when you click the down-arrow on the right of the "Fetch news" button and select "Add a custom news source", then select a recipe title and click the Advanced tab on the right.

Okay, now I have a better understanding of what you were saying for this part.

Once in the area where you create your own custom feed, there is and option to look at and further customize a built-in recipe. In the case of the L.A. Times, the recipe is actually a Python script not just the normal feeds we pull from the we pull from a web site.

Just a snippet of the code:

    feeds          = [(u'News', u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/news')
                      ,(u'Local','http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/news/local')
                      ,(u'MostEmailed','http://feeds.latimes.com/MostEmailed')
                      ,(u'Politics','http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/news/local/politics/cal/')
                      ,('OrangeCounty','http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/news/local/orange/')
                      ,('National','http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/news/nationworld/nation')
                      ,('Politics','http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/news/politics/')
                      ,('Business','http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/business')
                      ,('Sports','http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/sports/')
                      ,('Entertainment','http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/entertainment/')
                      ]


    def get_article_url(self, article):
        ans = article.get('feedburner_origlink').rpartition('?')[0]

It looks like it might be simple enough to swap out the L.A. Times feeds with other feeds (carefully checking the whole script not just this section).

And it looks like feedburner is used to create the feeds (which I just realized I've used before to create a feed for a Pre app for a site that didn't have an RSS feed).

BTW, I tried to copy and paste the urls directly into my browser and they didn't work, it just sent me to my Google Reader "add a feed" page.

I don't think it can hurt to try, just don't email it to your Kindle until the bugs are worked out. Just fetch it directly into Calibre.

I am going to play with it over the week to see what I can do.