It has over a built in news recipes, spanning over 30 languages and 50 countries, for websites of newspapers, magazines and blogs. At the click of a few buttons you can set up regular downloads of the news source of your choice. Not only can you choose from this large variety of available recipes, but you can also, create a customized recipe of your own or tweak one of the available recipes to make it better suited to you. In the past creating pretty news recipes has been a job for those with some expertise in python.
This may not work for a small fraction of complicated websites but is well worth a try. Basic news fetching: To get started just click on the above icon in the top toolbar in the main calibre window.
A new window, shown in Figure: 1 below, opens up. It lists all available news sources by language and country. You will notice in case of English there are a number of entries.
This is because a number of different countries publish English newspapers, magazines and blogs. The list indicates there are 7 news sources from australia, 1 from Bulgaria, 23 from Canada and so on. The automatic download will occur the first time calibre is run on your computer after the scheduled download time.
A dialog similar to that shown below should open up. First enter Calibre Blog into the Recipe title field. This will be the title of the e-book that will be created from the articles in the above feeds.
The next two fields Oldest article and Max. To add the feeds to the recipe, enter the feed title and the feed URL and click the Add feed button. Close the dialog. To test your new recipe , click the Fetch news button and in the Custom news sources sub-menu click calibre Blog. After a couple of minutes, the newly downloaded e-book of blog posts will appear in the main library view if you have your reader connected, it will be put onto the reader instead of into the library.
Select it and hit the View button to read! The reason this worked so well, with so little effort is that the blog provides full-content RSS feeds, i. Now we will look at a news source that does not provide full content feeds.
In such feeds, the full article is a webpage and the feed only contains a link to the webpage with a short summary of the article. Follow the procedure outlined in The calibre blog above to create a recipe for The BBC using the feeds above.
However, the extraction process is not perfect. Sometimes it leaves in undesirable content like menus and navigation aids or it removes content that should have been left alone, like article headings. In order, to have perfect content extraction, we will need to customize the fetch process, as described in the next section. When you want to perfect the download process, or download content from a particularly complex website, you can avail yourself of all the power and flexibility of the recipe framework.
In order to do that, in the Add custom news sources dialog, simply click the Switch to Advanced mode button. The easiest and often most productive customization is to use the print version of the online articles. The print version typically has much less cruft and translates much more smoothly to an e-book.
I think you may use any Caliber alternative, but having Calibre is also a must if you are book collector like me :. JD Ashwin KooBits is for kids! I would recommend FBReader and uBook. They support multiple DRM-free formats and are highly customizable. MelissaProffitt That's kinda like asking what is the best car. It depends on one's needs.
I personally use the reader in calibre for ePubs, etc. But, that's me. Ahed Eid I'll Go With calibre.. Nippur Where is the replacement for Calibre content server? Oh, right, there isn't one Conjada Dan b FlexPaper reflow looks like a new promising alternative to Calibre. Closes tickets: Annotations browser: When showing a book in the calibre library that is not currently visible, display an error.
Closes tickets: Bug fixes Fix import errors with some third party plugin on Windows Viewer: Fix toolbar show controls button not working when no book is open. Closes tickets: Viewer: Fix incorrect positioning of context menu for viewer toolbar. Closes tickets: MOBI Input: Fix regression that broke reading of some documents Bulk metadata search and replace: Fix some regular expression causing errors with the new regex engine Fix a regression that broke application of plugboards when sending by e-mail ODT Input: Fix a regression that broke conversion of ODT files with footnotes.
Closes tickets: Edit book: Reports tool: Fix a regression that broke sorting. Closes tickets: Viewer: Allow skipping the confirmation when using the remove highlight button in the popup bar. Closes tickets: Bug fixes ToC Editor: Fix bulk rename of entries not working Closes tickets: Linux: Fix right clicking on system tray icon not working Closes tickets: Fix User category based searches unreliable dues to caching issues Closes tickets: PDF Output: Don't fail if the input document has an html file identified as the cover Catalog generation: Fix a regression that broke generating catalogs if books with no comments are present.
This means that some no longer maintained third party plugins will not work. Bookmarks and highlights are auto-synced across devices. Regular expression engine used for searching the book list and reading metadata from filenames has been made more powerful.
Bug fixes Version 5. Release: 4. Closes tickets: Quickview panel: Add actions to the context menu to search for book in library, open in E-book viewer, etc. Closes tickets: Allow forcing calibre to remember the column width for the On device column by right clicking the header of the column Template language: Add functions to perform math operations to convert fractional numbers to integers Bug fixes Content server: Fix Esc key not working in several views.
Closes tickets: Fix unable to delete default value for custom columns of boolean type, once set Closes tickets: EPUB Output: When splitting don't consider files with only a single character empty Comments editor: Fix syntax coloring for HTML view in dark mode Book list: When a series column is not wide enough, elide text in the middle so that the series number is visible New news sources linuxnews.
E-book viewer: Add a "Read aloud" function that works via the operating system's Text-to-speech engine. Thank you!
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