Wall Street Journal recipe - How good is it?

SpiderMatt · 08-27-2011, 02:39 PM

As an economics major and a journalism major with an emphasis in business journalism, I'm realizing it would behoove me to subscribe to the Wall Street Journal. I've thought about the Kindle subscription, but I don't like the idea of paying more for less content. As a student, I can get the paper delivered and online access for $99/year. I hate carrying around newspapers, though. I also don't really like flipping through papers to find the rest of the story while I'm in the middle of it. I'm a product of my generation, I guess.

So I'm wondering if anyone here has used Calibre with an online subscription for the Journal. Does it snag all or most of the articles for the day? I haven't used Calibre for a newspaper in a few years. The last time I used it, I remember it having some pretty severe limitations. Now I really only use Calibre recipes for The Economist, which winds up being the entire print edition (because the website has it laid out all neat like that), which is wonderful. If I could get most of the articles I'd expect to see in the paper that day, Calibre would greatly enhance my Journal subscription.

kovidgoyal · 08-27-2011, 02:50 PM

Use the free wall street journal recipe to test, it fetches the same content as the subscription one, except that may of the articles are empty, since they require a subscription.

SpiderMatt · 08-27-2011, 03:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Use the free wall street journal recipe to test, it fetches the same content as the subscription one, except that may of the articles are empty, since they require a subscription.

Great! Thanks for letting me know.

winterescape · 08-28-2011, 10:24 PM

I have used it daily since late last year. It works very well but it has required a couple of updates as the site has changed over that period of time. Today it missed “the best selling books” table on C10 and returned just the headlines for “what’s news: world-wide”

I have been considering dropping my print subscription and just going with the electronic version, it is almost to the point where I would be confident in doing so.

Make sure you have plenty of storage space, this weekends paper with the full resolution images was 7.9MB

08-27-2011, 02:39 PM	#1
SpiderMatt Grand Arbiter Posts: 447 Karma: 1574837 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Arizona Device: iPod Touch, Amazon Kindle, Motorola Droid	Wall Street Journal recipe - How good is it? As an economics major and a journalism major with an emphasis in business journalism, I'm realizing it would behoove me to subscribe to the Wall Street Journal. I've thought about the Kindle subscription, but I don't like the idea of paying more for less content. As a student, I can get the paper delivered and online access for $99/year. I hate carrying around newspapers, though. I also don't really like flipping through papers to find the rest of the story while I'm in the middle of it. I'm a product of my generation, I guess. So I'm wondering if anyone here has used Calibre with an online subscription for the Journal. Does it snag all or most of the articles for the day? I haven't used Calibre for a newspaper in a few years. The last time I used it, I remember it having some pretty severe limitations. Now I really only use Calibre recipes for The Economist, which winds up being the entire print edition (because the website has it laid out all neat like that), which is wonderful. If I could get most of the articles I'd expect to see in the paper that day, Calibre would greatly enhance my Journal subscription.

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08-27-2011, 02:50 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,190 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Use the free wall street journal recipe to test, it fetches the same content as the subscription one, except that may of the articles are empty, since they require a subscription.

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winterescape Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: none	I have used it daily since late last year. It works very well but it has required a couple of updates as the site has changed over that period of time. Today it missed “the best selling books” table on C10 and returned just the headlines for “what’s news: world-wide” I have been considering dropping my print subscription and just going with the electronic version, it is almost to the point where I would be confident in doing so. Make sure you have plenty of storage space, this weekends paper with the full resolution images was 7.9MB

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