Single instance of periodical - distributed by email

[AVassilakas]

Dear All,

firstly forgive me if this has been answered already but I've having challenges trying to setup calibre to distribute one and only one copy of a periodical to my device by email.

I believe I've set the scheduler correctly by setting in the advanced tab "Keep at most" 1 issue and set up distribution by email to my main kindle device. This does behave as expected that my library only has a latest copy and teh emails are sent out.

However on the receiving end ( both my kindle and my iphone ) i just get an every increasing list of documents being delivered and they don't seem to be replace in place.

I've gone through the FAQ, searched google, etc. but all no no avail. Has anyone figured out how to set up the receiving device that it disposes or previous versions?

Thanks much in anticipation

A

[kovidgoyal]

Amazon strips all periodical markers from the file if you send it by email. They apparently dont want their email delivery service to be used by third parties for periodicals.

[AVassilakas]

Thanks - so basically a no. Need a physical synch then. Thank you for the speedy response!

[oneillpt]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Amazon strips all periodical markers from the file if you send it by email. They apparently dont want their email delivery service to be used by third parties for periodicals.

With my PW1 (Kindle 5.4.4.1 and previous firmware since last October) this problem of archived periodicals not being deleted on the PW1 when 7 issues have been archived also occurs when periodicals are transferred via USB connection, not just by email. Others have described the same problem here. The same periodicals transferred to my old Kindle Keyboard via USB are archived, marked Expiring, and deleted correctly. An Amazon periodical subscription will also be archived, marked Expiring, and deleted correctly on the PW1.

The behaviour of the back issues on the PW1 is the same ever increasing list of back issues for each periodical, none being marked Expiring or deleted, so requiring manual deletion.

However I have found that toggling the "Keep This Issue" setting for an issue causes the seventh and all older issues for that periodical to be marked Expiring, although the older issues remain on the device until the next time an new issue is transferred via USB so causing the previous latest issue to be added to the back issues, at which time all the Expiring issues older than the seventh are deleted. It does not seem to matter whether a back issue is marked Keep or an issue left marked Keep is toggled back by "Do Not Keep This Issue". Either way, older back issues are cleaned out once another issue arrives. If anyone can find why archiving and deletion require this manual intervention, and fix this problem, I, and I suspect many other PW1 (and PW2?) owners generating Calibre periodicals, would be very happy.

My understanding of the advanced setting "Keep at most" is that it applies only to the Calibre Library, not to the Kindle. Kovid can probably confirm this. It would be great if there were an entry in the Mobi file format which could be used to apply this to the Kindle as well, but I do not think that the Mobi format provides any such entry.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by oneillpt

My understanding of the advanced setting "Keep at most" is that it applies only to the Calibre Library, not to the Kindle. Kovid can probably confirm this. It would be great if there were an entry in the Mobi file format which could be used to apply this to the Kindle as well, but I do not think that the Mobi format provides any such entry.

Indeed, Keep At Most applies only to entries in the calibre library. calibre does not delete books off the device without explicit user interaction, as matching books from the device to books in the library is not 100% accurate and I dont want to delete wrong stuff by accident.