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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
As opposed to visiting the webpages of the stories via an RSS feed and saving them to your disk with the Save to disk function in a browser and then using calibre to convert the webpages to something readable on the reader?
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Well, leaving aside the fact that I've never joined the RSS universe and therefore don't have a clear sense of how that works, yeah, I guess so.
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But I get your larger point which is that news publishers are running out of funding sources and calibre isn't helping that. To do that I have to say that calibre does not deliberately strip out the ads. The ads are removed as a side effect of making the webpages legible on the reader. If the publishers wised up and included ads in a way that did not make teir websites unusable on the reader, there would be no need to strip the ads.
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Hm, for that to work meaningfully, there would have to be a way for readers to click the ads, yes? Which won't work on a Reader. Not that I ever typically click ads myself, anyway.
I suppose a lot of publishers are even now trying to decide whether to go to a subscription (or partial subscription) model. The subscription prices I've seen for the Kindle seem quite reasonable, and I wonder if that's a model that will take root.
I didn't realize Calibre could handle paid-subscription content. Cool.
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EDIT: Another purely legal point is tht calibre doesn't actually distribute the repackaged content. It would distribute the content if I set up a website and made the LRF/EPUB/MOBI files avaialble for download
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Good point.