News items now showing dates in titles - I don't want them to

duluoz · 04-09-2012, 02:57 PM

Hi all,

I'm sure this is an easy fix. I have a headless server that runs 'ebook'convert' via cron to download some daily and weekly newspapers and emails the to my K4 Kindle.

Recently, the newspapers have been appearing on the kindle as

Quote:

The Independent [Thu 05 April]

i.e. showing the date of each publication. This means that I have a long list of papers, that I have to manually delete. They used to just come under

Quote:

The Independent

and so overwriting each other.

How can I change this? I suspect it may be something to do with plugboards? If anyone is kind enough to offer a solution, please bear in mind I am doing this on a headless server, so no GUI.

Thanks

Jamie

kovidgoyal · 04-09-2012, 10:41 PM

Set your output profile to kindle.

duluoz · 04-10-2012, 01:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Set your output profile to kindle.

I have. The code I run is

Code:

xvfb-run ebook-convert "The Independent.recipe" indie.mobi --output-profile kindle
calibre-smtp --attachment indie.mobi --relay smtp.gmail.com --port 587 --username username --password hunter --encryption-method TLS user@gmail.com user@kindle.com ""

This is the same code I've ran for the last few months, and always worked as expeced until a couple of weeks ago...

kovidgoyal · 04-10-2012, 01:44 AM

Run ebook-meta on the generated .mobi file to see if the title actually has the date added to it, or that's something amazon is adding in the process of email delivery.

duluoz · 04-10-2012, 02:17 AM

Thanks - the title according to ebook-meta also has the date in it.

EDIT: Just updated Calibre, and this seems to have fixed it - at least todays downloaded issue doesn't have the date in it. Strange - but thanks for your help

Jamie

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04-09-2012, 10:41 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,185 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Set your output profile to kindle.

04-10-2012, 01:44 AM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,185 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Run ebook-meta on the generated .mobi file to see if the title actually has the date added to it, or that's something amazon is adding in the process of email delivery.

04-10-2012, 02:17 AM	#5
duluoz Newsbeamer dev Posts: 123 Karma: 1000 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: Kindle Voyage	Thanks - the title according to ebook-meta also has the date in it. EDIT: Just updated Calibre, and this seems to have fixed it - at least todays downloaded issue doesn't have the date in it. Strange - but thanks for your help Jamie

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