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Originally Posted by dwanthny
Most sites will require different recipes.
Many sites limit their feed to 10 articles. You can get around this by setting the RSS feeds in Google Reader then Google with gather up all articles as they come in. You can then use the recipe for google reader to grab the articles. This is also a way of handling multiple blogs with one recipe.
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OK, I searched around and found this thread that explains why you can't mix feeds from different sites in the same recipe:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...=google+reader
If I understand it correctly, if I place the feeds I have in Google Reader (effectively tagging them with the folder name), then the Google Reader recipe will delineate sections for each folder.
Let's say I have 5 blog feeds, each with 10 unread articles, in one Google Reader folder labeled 'fitness'. Will the Google Reader recipe create a section titled 'fitness' and subsections for each blog, or will all 50 articles be mixed together under the 'fitness' section?
As for the 10 article limit without using an aggregator like Google Reader, I can live with just the most recent 10 articles on my e-reader. But grouping the feeds (without mixing articles from different feeds) would help limit the clutter on my Sony reader. Is there another way to accomplish this goal even if I use a different recipe for every feed from a different site?
Edit: It seems I can use Collections and tags to accomplish this, e.g., 'feed-fitness', 'feed-finance', etc., which would group the various feeds into subject collections, and still keep them separate from my books, which might be tagged 'fitness', 'finance', etc.
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Originally Posted by dwanthny
Once you finish the book you can delete the book, but not the individual articles within the book.
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OK, that makes sense, and leads to my earlier question:
"4. I noticed that if I re-fetch a recipe that I've previously fetched, Calibre creates another ebook for that recipe. How do I automatically update (or replace) the existing ebook for a custom recipe rather than creating new ebooks each time I fetch news?"
It seems when each feed has it's own recipe, Calibre will keep downloading the last 10 articles, even if it's already done so before. Is there anyway to let Calibre know the articles are read or previously downloaded?
I saw a preference setting that tells Calibre to delete news from library once it is sent to the reader. I suppose that will prevent me from reloading a previously loaded 'news book' onto the reader, but it doesn't stop Calibre from fetching those same articles and creating another book.