On Feedbooks: viewing full news article through RSS feeds

edercito · 06-27-2008, 09:03 PM

Hi All,
I'm new to this forum. I tried to get the New York Times feeds through Feedbooks' RSS feature. However, I'm only able to get a pdf with a summary of each article. I was wondering if one's able to download complete stories like in Calibre for the sony reader. Any help would be appreciated.

Brian1972ct · 07-22-2008, 03:31 PM

I would love to know how to do this too, but I dont think we can yet.

daffy4u · 07-22-2008, 03:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by edercito

Hi All,
I'm new to this forum. I tried to get the New York Times feeds through Feedbooks' RSS feature. However, I'm only able to get a pdf with a summary of each article.

I haven't been able to get it to work either for the L.A. Times. The same feed links work in MobiPocket Reader and Google Reader but not Feedbooks.

Hadrien · 07-22-2008, 03:41 PM

The problem is with the feeds, not Feedbooks.

If a feed only provides a partial information, you won't get the full article.
I really doubt that it would be legal for a service to automatically extract the articles, and there's no easy way to do this fully automatically either (need to set an extraction pattern for every feed).

Abelturd · 03-25-2009, 01:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hadrien

The problem is with the feeds, not Feedbooks.

If a feed only provides a partial information, you won't get the full article.
I really doubt that it would be legal for a service to automatically extract the articles, and there's no easy way to do this fully automatically either (need to set an extraction pattern for every feed).

Mobipocket Reader does that, Calibre does that. Without article extraction the feedbooks News is a useless feature as tha vast majority of feeds doesn't list whole articles, only summaries.

cszhy · 07-23-2009, 09:23 PM

how can I read google reader on my sony prs500 ?
I'm trying on Calibre, but I don't have proper receipt for google reader
anyone can help?

Thanks

Gideon · 07-23-2009, 09:29 PM

Neither Calibre or MobiReader can do it reliably, however. The only ones that work are ones that have 'recipes' (and even those are often dodgy).

Abelturd · 07-24-2009, 02:23 AM

There's a Greasemonkey script that sends articles you choose with a shortcut to InstaPaper. And afaik calibre has a recipe for instapaper, you can also add instapaper to mobipocket reader news without any hassle, works reliably. Though, the issue remains that if the article in GReader is only an abstract, not the whole thing, that is all you'll get, no extraction.
I'm sorry, I misremembered (early morning for me

). The script sends only the article url to instapaper, so you should get whole articles, even if there's only an abstract in Greader. Still, there sometimes is a problem with articles stretching over more pages.

06-27-2008, 09:03 PM	#1
edercito Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Stanford, CA Device: Kindle 1, Kindle 3 Wifi	On Feedbooks: viewing full news article through RSS feeds Hi All, I'm new to this forum. I tried to get the New York Times feeds through Feedbooks' RSS feature. However, I'm only able to get a pdf with a summary of each article. I was wondering if one's able to download complete stories like in Calibre for the sony reader. Any help would be appreciated.

07-24-2009, 02:23 AM	#8
Abelturd Little Fuzzy Soldier Posts: 580 Karma: 5711 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Nowhere in particular. Device: cybook gen3, htc hero, ipaq 214	There's a Greasemonkey script that sends articles you choose with a shortcut to InstaPaper. And afaik calibre has a recipe for instapaper, you can also add instapaper to mobipocket reader news without any hassle, works reliably. Though, the issue remains that if the article in GReader is only an abstract, not the whole thing, that is all you'll get, no extraction. I'm sorry, I misremembered (early morning for me ). The script sends only the article url to instapaper, so you should get whole articles, even if there's only an abstract in Greader. Still, there sometimes is a problem with articles stretching over more pages. Last edited by Abelturd; 07-24-2009 at 02:33 AM.

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07-22-2008, 03:31 PM	#2
Brian1972ct Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Connecticut, USA Device: Kindle	I would love to know how to do this too, but I dont think we can yet.

07-22-2008, 03:41 PM	#4
Hadrien Feedbooks.com Co-Founder Posts: 2,263 Karma: 145123 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Paris, France Device: Sony PRS-t-1/350/300/500/505/600/700, Nexus S, iPad	The problem is with the feeds, not Feedbooks. If a feed only provides a partial information, you won't get the full article. I really doubt that it would be legal for a service to automatically extract the articles, and there's no easy way to do this fully automatically either (need to set an extraction pattern for every feed).

07-23-2009, 09:23 PM	#6
cszhy Member Posts: 21 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2007 Device: sony reader	how can I read google reader on my sony prs500 ? I'm trying on Calibre, but I don't have proper receipt for google reader anyone can help? Thanks

07-23-2009, 09:29 PM	#7
Gideon Wearer of Pants Posts: 1,050 Karma: 7634 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Norman, OK Device: Amazon Kindle DX / iPhone	Neither Calibre or MobiReader can do it reliably, however. The only ones that work are ones that have 'recipes' (and even those are often dodgy).

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