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- <h2 class="ch-lvl" id="task3">Task 3: Downloading News</h2>
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- <p class="calibre2">This feature of calibre is often overlooked, especially by users who own
- an Amazon Kindle. Integrated into calibre is the ability to download news
- from a variety of sources. As of this writing 337 different sources
- ('recipes') from all over the world, including both free and paid content
- are supported. The real advantage of having calibre manage your news
- subscriptions is that once downloaded the content will be formatted for
- reading on your e-book reader. However, you can still read the news right
- on your computer. If you're going to be reading the downloaded news on an
- e-book reader it's best to go into 'Preferences' and set the 'Preferred
- output format' in General options to the preferred format for your e-book
- reader. This would be MOBI for Kindle, and EPUB for the Sony Readers and
- Nook.</p>
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- <p class="calibre2">Click the 'Fetch news' button (middle of the top tool bar) to open the
- news download scheduler. With 337 sources the best thing to do is find the
- ones you like and set them to automatically download at a time convenient
- for you. If you don't want to schedule automatic downloads and would rather
- handle it manually, you can. Just use the 'Download now' button that appears
- when you have selected a news source.</p>
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- <p class="calibre2">In the news download scheduler you can expand the categories that are
- relevant to you (the ones in languages you can read) by clicking the
- disclosure triangles to the left of the language groupings. Look through the
- recipes for something of interest. When you find one of interest, select it
- and check the 'Schedule for download' check box on the right, or click
- 'Download now'. You can also set how often and when you want it to download.
- Once downloaded the content will be converted to an e-book according to your
- conversion preferences.</p>
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- <p class="calibre2">By default when you conntect your e-book reader calibre will
- automatically transfer the downloaded news to the device. If you don't want
- this to happen, and would rather transfer manually go into the
- 'Preferences', select the interface category, and uncheck 'Automatically
- send downloaded news to ebook reader'. Also, if you do want it send to the
- reader automatically it's usually a good idea to check the 'Delete news from
- library when automatically sent to reader' option in ΓÇ£PreferencesΓÇ¥
- interface.</p>
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