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tomsem · 03-28-2010, 02:53 PM

Update frequency and article retention will vary depending on the blog author(s). New articles appear, oldest articles disappear, with each update, which can be several times a day. So there's a window of time in which to read any given article (and take clippings or whatever), but eventually it vanishes and the only way to get back to it is to visit the originating web site with a web browser.

It does that because it doesn't make sense to retain versions of the blog snapshot that is delivered to Kindle: there would be massive duplication, which would impact usability.

This is different that magazine/newspaper subscriptions, where update frequency is more or less fixed (daily, weekly, monthly) and where you get a particular 'issue' and can have more than one of these on your Kindle (but even then the oldest issue will get deleted with each update).

There are at least a couple of other delivery mechanisms that you might consider: calibre, which is a desktop application that gathers and formats newsfeeds/blogs for your Kindle (or other ereader) and copies them to Kindle when you tether it to your computer, and feedbooks, which allows you to update your newsfeeds at any time, from one version to the next using whispernet.

Calibre in particular will retain each version it creates on your computer, so you can go back and look at it.

03-28-2010, 02:53 PM	#2
tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,942 Karma: 27060153 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	Update frequency and article retention will vary depending on the blog author(s). New articles appear, oldest articles disappear, with each update, which can be several times a day. So there's a window of time in which to read any given article (and take clippings or whatever), but eventually it vanishes and the only way to get back to it is to visit the originating web site with a web browser. It does that because it doesn't make sense to retain versions of the blog snapshot that is delivered to Kindle: there would be massive duplication, which would impact usability. This is different that magazine/newspaper subscriptions, where update frequency is more or less fixed (daily, weekly, monthly) and where you get a particular 'issue' and can have more than one of these on your Kindle (but even then the oldest issue will get deleted with each update). There are at least a couple of other delivery mechanisms that you might consider: calibre, which is a desktop application that gathers and formats newsfeeds/blogs for your Kindle (or other ereader) and copies them to Kindle when you tether it to your computer, and feedbooks, which allows you to update your newsfeeds at any time, from one version to the next using whispernet. Calibre in particular will retain each version it creates on your computer, so you can go back and look at it.