diff --git a/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/web/convert_from.py b/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/web/convert_from.py
index 59a90f24e3..29622de94e 100644
--- a/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/web/convert_from.py
+++ b/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/web/convert_from.py
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ def option_parser():
     parser.add_option('-u', '--url', dest='url', default=None,  
                       help='The URL to download. You only need to specify this if you are not specifying a website_profile.')
     
+    parser.add_option('--username', dest='username', default=None, 
+                      help='Specify the username to be used while downloading. Only used if the profile supports it.')
+    parser.add_option('--password', dest='password', default=None,
+                      help='Specify the password to be used while downloading. Only used if the profile supports it.')
     parser.add_option('--timeout', help='Timeout in seconds to wait for a response from the server. Default: %default s',
                       default=None, type='int', dest='timeout')
     parser.add_option('-r', '--max-recursions', help='Maximum number of levels to recurse i.e. depth of links to follow. Default %default',
@@ -64,7 +68,7 @@ def fetch_website(options, logger):
     return fetcher.start_fetch(options.url), tdir
     
 def create_lrf(htmlfile, options, logger):
-    if not options.author:
+    if not options.author or options.author.lower() == 'unknown':
         options.author = __appname__
     options.header = True
     if options.output:
@@ -83,9 +87,12 @@ def process_profile(args, options, logger=None):
         if not profiles.has_key(args[1]):
             raise CommandLineError('Unknown profile: %s\nValid profiles: %s'%(args[1], profiles.keys()))
     profile = profiles[args[1]] if len(args) == 2 else profiles['default']
-    
+    profile['username'] = options.username
+    profile['password'] = options.password
     if profile.has_key('initialize'):
         profile['initialize'](profile)
+    if profile.has_key('browser'):
+        options.browser = profile['browser']
     
     for opt in ('url', 'timeout', 'max_recursions', 'max_files', 'delay', 'no_stylesheets'):
         val = getattr(options, opt)
@@ -104,12 +111,15 @@ def process_profile(args, options, logger=None):
     options.match_regexps += profile['match_regexps']
     options.preprocess_regexps = profile['preprocess_regexps']
     options.filter_regexps += profile['filter_regexps']
+    if len(args) == 2 and args[1] != 'default':
+        options.anchor_ids = False
     
     htmlfile, tdir = fetch_website(options, logger)
     create_lrf(htmlfile, options, logger)
     if profile.has_key('finalize'):
         profile['finalize'](profile)
     shutil.rmtree(tdir)
+    
 
 def main(args=sys.argv, logger=None):
     parser = option_parser()
diff --git a/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/web/nytimes.py b/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/web/nytimes.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d7602405e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/web/nytimes.py
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+##    Copyright (C) 2007 Kovid Goyal kovid@kovidgoyal.net
+##    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+##    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+##    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+##    (at your option) any later version.
+##
+##    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+##    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+##    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+##    GNU General Public License for more details.
+##
+##    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+##    with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+##    51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+'''New York Times from RSS feeds.'''
+import time, tempfile, os, shutil, calendar, operator
+
+from libprs500 import __appname__, iswindows, browser
+from libprs500.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup, BeautifulStoneSoup
+
+RSS = 'http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/index.html'
+LOGIN = 'http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login'
+
+def get_feeds(browser):
+    src = browser.open(RSS).read()
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(src[src.index('<html'):])
+    feeds = []
+    for link in soup.findAll('link', attrs={'type':'application/rss+xml'}):
+        if link['title'] not in ['NYTimes.com Homepage', 'Obituaries', 'Pogue\'s Posts', 
+                                 'Dining & Wine', 'Home & Garden', 'Magazine',
+                                 'Most E-mailed Articles', 
+                                 'Automobiles', 'Fashion & Style', 'Television News',
+                                 'Education']:
+            feeds.append((link['title'], link['href']))
+        #else: print link['title']
+    
+    return feeds
+
+def parse_feeds(feeds, browser, max_articles_per_feed=10):
+    articles = {}
+    for title, url in feeds:
+        src = browser.open(url).read()
+        articles[title] = []
+        soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(src)
+        for item in soup.findAll('item'):
+            try:
+                pubdate = item.find('pubdate').string
+                if not pubdate:
+                    continue
+                pubdate = pubdate.replace('+0000', 'GMT')
+                d = { 
+                    'title'    : item.find('title').string,                 
+                    'url'      : item.find('guid').string+'?&pagewanted=print',
+                    'timestamp': calendar.timegm(time.strptime(pubdate, 
+                                                    '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z')),
+                    'date'     : pubdate
+                    }
+            except:
+                continue
+            try:
+                d['description'] = item.find('description').string
+            except:
+                d['description'] = ''
+            articles[title].append(d)
+        articles[title].sort(key=operator.itemgetter('timestamp'), reverse=True)
+        articles[title][max_articles_per_feed:] = []
+        for item in articles[title]:
+            item.pop('timestamp')
+    return articles
+
+def build_index(articles, dir):
+    
+        def build_sub_index(title, items):
+            ilist = ''
+            li = u'<li><a href="%(url)s">%(title)s</a> <span style="font-size: x-small">[%(date)s]</span><br/>\n'+\
+                u'<div style="font-size:small; font-family:sans">%(description)s<br /></div></li>\n'
+            for item in items:
+                ilist += li%item
+            return u'''\
+            <html>
+            <body>
+            <h2>%(title)s</h2>
+            <ul>
+            %(items)s
+            </ul>
+            </body>
+            </html>
+            '''%dict(title=title, items=ilist.rstrip())        
+        
+        cnum = 0
+        clist = ''
+        categories = articles.keys()
+        categories.sort()
+        for category in categories:
+            cnum  += 1
+            cfile = os.path.join(dir, 'category'+str(cnum)+'.html')
+            prefix = 'file:' if iswindows else ''
+            clist += u'<li><a href="%s">%s</a></li>\n'%(prefix+cfile, category)
+            src = build_sub_index(category, articles[category])
+            open(cfile, 'wb').write(src.encode('utf-8'))        
+        
+        src = '''\
+        <html>
+        <body>
+        <h1>The New York Times</h1>
+        <div style='text-align: right; font-weight: bold'>%(date)s</div>
+        <ul>
+        %(categories)s
+        </ul>
+        </body>
+        </html>
+        '''%dict(date=time.strftime('%a, %d %B, %Y', time.localtime()), categories=clist)
+        index = os.path.join(dir, 'index.html')
+        open(index, 'wb').write(src.encode('utf-8'))
+        return index
+    
+             
+def initialize(profile):
+    profile['temp dir'] = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix=__appname__+'_')
+    profile['browser'] = login(profile)
+    feeds = get_feeds(profile['browser'])
+    articles = parse_feeds(feeds, profile['browser'])
+    index = build_index(articles, profile['temp dir'])
+    profile['url'] = 'file:'+ ('' if iswindows else '//') + index
+    
+    
+def finalize(profile):
+    shutil.rmtree(profile['temp dir'])
+ 
+
+def login(profile):
+    br = browser()
+    if profile['username'] and profile['password']:
+        br.open(LOGIN)
+        br.select_form(name='login')
+        br['USERID']   = profile['username']
+        br['PASSWORD'] = profile['password']
+        br.submit()
+    return br
+      
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    feeds = get_feeds()
+    articles = parse_feeds(feeds)
+    print articles
+
diff --git a/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/web/profiles.py b/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/web/profiles.py
index 8ca0a228d6..b076858059 100644
--- a/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/web/profiles.py
+++ b/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/web/profiles.py
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ import time, re
 
 from libprs500.ebooks.lrf.web.newsweek import initialize as newsweek_initialize
 from libprs500.ebooks.lrf.web.newsweek import finalize as newsweek_finalize
+from libprs500.ebooks.lrf.web.nytimes import initialize as nytimes_initialize
+from libprs500.ebooks.lrf.web.nytimes import finalize as nytimes_finalize
+
 
 profiles = {
             'default' : {
@@ -37,32 +40,25 @@ profiles = {
                        },
                        
             'nytimes' : {
-                         'url'               : 'http://nytimesriver.com',
+                         'initialize'          : nytimes_initialize,
+                         'finalize'            : nytimes_finalize,
+                         'timefmt'             :  ' [%a, %d %b, %Y]',
+                         'max_recursions'      : 2,                         
                          'title'             : 'The New York Times',
-                         'match_regexps'     : 'nytimes.com/'+time.strftime('%Y', time.localtime()),
                          'preprocess_regexps' :
                          [ (re.compile(i[0], re.IGNORECASE | re.DOTALL), i[1]) for i in 
                           [
-                           # Remove help link and replace by title
-                           (r'<a .*?alt=.Click here for information about this service.*?</a>', 
-                            lambda match: '<h1>The New York Times</h1>\n<p align="right"><b>%s</b></p>'%(time.strftime('%a %d %b %Y', time.localtime()),)),
-                           # Blank line before categories
-                           (r'<b>\s*NYT', lambda match: '<p></p><b>NYT'),
-                           # Blank line between articles
-                           (r'<p><a href', lambda match : '<br /><p><a href'),
-                           # Remove header on individual articles
-                           (r'<body class=.printerversion..*?<h1><nyt_headline', 
-                            lambda match : '<body class="printerversion">\n<h1><nyt_headline'),
-                           # Remove footer from individiual articles
-                           (r'<nyt_update_bottom.*', lambda match : '</body></html>'),
-                           # Remove TimesSelect garbage
-                           (r'<title>.*?TimesSelect', lambda match : 'Downloading of TimesSelect stories is not supported.<!--'),
+                           # Remove header bar
+                           (r'(<body.*?>).*?<h1', lambda match: match.group(1)+'<h1'),
+                           (r'<div class="articleTools">.*></ul>', lambda match : ''),
+                           # Remove footer bar
+                           (r'<\!--  end \#article -->.*', lambda match : '</body></html>'),
+                           (r'<div id="footer">.*', lambda match : '</body></html>'),
                            ]
                           ],
                          },
                          
             'bbc'     : {
-                         'url'               : 'http://bbcriver.com',
                          'title'             : 'The BBC',
                          'no_stylesheets'    : True,
                          'preprocess_regexps' :