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bjmckenz · 03-25-2010, 03:00 PM

I've been using Calibre for a month or two with a Kindle. It's a great program, but I don't know how to do things that I would expect.

I use the K for reading papers, magazines, and blogs primarily. I never read directly in Calibre except to check formatting.

How can I direct Calibre to only keep (say) 7 days of the WSJ? I set "Delete downloaded news older than 7 days" for all my feeds, (but take the Wall Street Journal [paid] as an example) and when I do a "Download now" I see no evidence that it's deleting the old(er) ones from Calibre. Perhaps the fact that I just changed the "after..." from its default? Does it only apply going forward?

Second and related:

Is there a way to keep my Kindle mirroring my library? That is, deleting an item in the library deletes it on the device? I realize that this may not be something that everyone wants, but I have (effectively) one library and one reader...and I want them to stay synced. How do I do that, if it's possible?

Thanks much.

03-25-2010, 03:00 PM	#1
bjmckenz Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2010 Device: Kindle	Purging (removing, deleting) old news from Calibre and Device I've been using Calibre for a month or two with a Kindle. It's a great program, but I don't know how to do things that I would expect. I use the K for reading papers, magazines, and blogs primarily. I never read directly in Calibre except to check formatting. How can I direct Calibre to only keep (say) 7 days of the WSJ? I set "Delete downloaded news older than 7 days" for all my feeds, (but take the Wall Street Journal [paid] as an example) and when I do a "Download now" I see no evidence that it's deleting the old(er) ones from Calibre. Perhaps the fact that I just changed the "after..." from its default? Does it only apply going forward? Second and related: Is there a way to keep my Kindle mirroring my library? That is, deleting an item in the library deletes it on the device? I realize that this may not be something that everyone wants, but I have (effectively) one library and one reader...and I want them to stay synced. How do I do that, if it's possible? Thanks much.