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Originally Posted by flyash

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.

Correct.

Originally Posted by flyash

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?

It has been a while, but basing this on what I wrote in the above post It would seem that they would be scattered. Placing each fitnes blog in its own folder could be grouped (sorta) by creating the folders as fitness_blog_name. This way all the fitness blog feeds would be in a row.

Originally Posted by flyash

But grouping the feeds (without mixing articles from different feeds) would help limit the clutter on my Sony reader.

Understand all of these folders in google reader would be included in one ebook when downloaded. This will definately reduce clutter on your reader.

Originally Posted by flyash

Is there another way to accomplish this goal even if I use a different recipe for every feed from a different site?

Since they are all tagged NEWS they will be in one collection, no matter how many recipes you use.

Originally Posted by flyash

"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?"

If you have the delete news from library automatically set that's a beginning.

Originally Posted by flyash

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?

No

Originally Posted by flyash

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.

If you use Google reader, once you download the current list of articles all you have to do is open Google reader and click the mark all as read button and this will prevent old articles from downloading again the next time you download your news.