diff --git a/resources/recipes/aftenposten.recipe b/resources/recipes/aftenposten.recipe
index 304c7c0e02..fcc73658e9 100644
--- a/resources/recipes/aftenposten.recipe
+++ b/resources/recipes/aftenposten.recipe
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ class Aftenposten(BasicNewsRecipe):
      language = 'no'
      oldest_article = 5
      max_articles_per_feed = 100
+     recipe_disabled = ('The recipe to download Aftenposten has been '
+             'temporarily disabled at the publisher\'s request, while '
+             'they finalize their digital strategy.')
      no_stylesheets = True
      encoding = 'ISO-8859-1'
 
diff --git a/resources/recipes/chowk.recipe b/resources/recipes/chowk.recipe
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3c8ea48607
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/recipes/chowk.recipe
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+
+class ChowkRecipe(BasicNewsRecipe):
+    __license__  = 'GPL v3'
+    __author__ = 'kwetal'
+    language = 'en_IN'
+    version = 1
+
+    title = u'Chowk'
+    publisher = u'chowk.com'
+    category = u'Opinion, South Asia'
+    description = u'Ideas & Identities of South Asia'
+
+    use_embedded_content = False
+    remove_empty_feeds = True
+    oldest_article = 30
+    max_articles_per_feed = 100
+
+    #no_stylesheets = True
+    remove_javascript = True
+    encoding = 'utf-8'
+
+    feeds = []
+    feeds.append(('Chowk Articles', 'http://www.chowk.com/rss'))
+
+    keep_only_tags = []
+    keep_only_tags.append(dict(name = 'div', attrs = {'id': 'content'}))
+
+    conversion_options = {'comments': description, 'tags': category, 'language': 'en',
+                          'publisher': publisher}
+
+    extra_css = '''
+                body{font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,geneva,sans-serif;}
+                a {text-decoration: none; color: blue;}
+                div.pgtitle {font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;}
+                div.wname, div.date {font-size: x-small; color: #696969;}
+                div.wname {margin-top: 1em;}
+                div.date {margin-bottom: 1em;}
+                div.title {font-weight: bold;}
+                '''
+
+
+    def print_version(self, url):
+        main, sep, id = url.rpartition('/')
+
+        return main + '/print/' + id
diff --git a/resources/recipes/dawn.recipe b/resources/recipes/dawn.recipe
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3d4ab42a07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/recipes/dawn.recipe
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import Tag
+
+class DawnRecipe(BasicNewsRecipe):
+    __license__  = 'GPL v3'
+    __author__ = 'kwetal'
+    language = 'en_PK'
+    version = 1
+
+    title = u'Dawn'
+    publisher = u'Dawn Media Group'
+    category = u'News, Pakistan'
+    description = u'Leading English Newspaper of Pakistan covering national & international news'
+
+    use_embedded_content = False
+    remove_empty_feeds = True
+    oldest_article = 2
+    max_articles_per_feed = 100
+
+    no_stylesheets = True
+    remove_javascript = True
+    encoding = 'utf-8'
+
+    # Feeds from http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/services/rss
+    feeds = []
+    feeds.append((u'Latest News', u'http://feedproxy.google.com/Dawn-All-News'))
+    feeds.append((u'Pakistan News', u'http://feeds2.feedburner.com/dawn/news/pakistan'))
+    feeds.append((u'World News', u'http://feeds2.feedburner.com/dawn/news/world'))
+    feeds.append((u'Business News', u'http://feeds2.feedburner.com/dawn/news/business'))
+    feeds.append((u'Sport News', u'http://feeds2.feedburner.com/dawn/news/sport'))
+    feeds.append((u'Cricket News', u'http://feeds2.feedburner.com/dawn/news/cricket'))
+    feeds.append((u'Sci-tech News', u'http://feeds2.feedburner.com/dawn/news/technology'))
+    feeds.append((u'Entertainment News', u'http://feeds2.feedburner.com/dawn/news/entertainment'))
+    feeds.append((u'Columnists', u'http://feeds2.feedburner.com/dawn/news/columnists'))
+    #feeds.append((u'', u''))
+
+    conversion_options = {'comments': description, 'tags': category, 'language': 'en',
+                          'publisher': publisher}
+
+    extra_css = '''
+                body{font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,geneva,sans-serif;}
+                center {font-size: xx-small; color: #666666;}
+                strong {font-size: small; font-weight: bold;}
+                span.news_headline {font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold; margin: 0em; padding: 0em}
+                span.news_byline {font-size: x-small; color: #696969; margin-top: 1em;}
+                '''
+
+    def print_version(self, url):
+        return url + '?pagedesign=Dawn_PrintlyFriendlyPage'
+
+    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
+        newBody = Tag(soup, 'body')
+
+        for cl in ['page_title', 'news_headline', 'news_byline']:
+            tag = soup.find('span', attrs = {'class': cl})
+            if tag:
+                # They like their <br> tags; I don't: does not work well on small screens.
+                if tag['class'] == 'news_byline':
+                    for br in tag.findAll('br'):
+                        br.extract()
+
+                newBody.append(tag)
+
+        table = soup.find('table', attrs = {'id': 'body table'})
+        if table:
+            for td in table.findAll('td', attrs = {'class': 'news_story'}):
+                for tag in td.findAll(True):
+                    if tag.has_key('id') and tag['id'] == 'banner-img_slide':
+                        tag.extract()
+                    elif tag.has_key('style'):
+                        del tag['style']
+                    elif tag.name == 'script':
+                        tag.extract()
+
+                # They like their <br> tags; I don't: does not work well on small screens.
+                center = td.find('center')
+                if center:
+                    for br in center.findNextSiblings('br'):
+                        br.extract()
+                    for br in center.findPreviousSiblings('br'):
+                        br.extract()
+
+                for attr in ['align', 'valign']:
+                    if td.has_key(attr):
+                        del td[attr]
+
+                td.name = 'div'
+                newBody.append(td)
+
+            soup.body.replaceWith(newBody)
+
+            return soup
diff --git a/resources/recipes/independent.recipe b/resources/recipes/independent.recipe
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4d677b58a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/recipes/independent.recipe
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+
+class Independent(BasicNewsRecipe):
+    title          = u'The Independent'
+    oldest_article = 1
+    language = 'en_GB'
+    __author__ = 'Jimmy Patrick'
+    max_articles_per_feed = 100
+
+    feeds          = [(u'UK', u'http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/rss'),
+                      (u'World', u'http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/rss'),
+                      (u'Sport', u'http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rss'),
+                      (u'Arts & Entertainment', u'http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/rss'),
+                      (u'Life & Style',u'http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/rss'),
+                      (u'Business',u'http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/rss'),
+                      (u'Science',u'http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/rss'),
+                      (u'Media',u'http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/rss')
+                      ]
+
+    keep_only_tags = [dict(id=['article'])]
+    remove_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'share-links'}),
+                   dict(name='ul', attrs={'class':'article-tools'}),
+                   dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'related-articles'})
+                  ]
+
+    extra_css = "body{color:black;}"
diff --git a/resources/recipes/nymag.recipe b/resources/recipes/nymag.recipe
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..134624bc67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/recipes/nymag.recipe
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env  python
+
+__license__   = 'GPL v3'
+__copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>'
+'''
+theatlantic.com
+'''
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+
+class NewYorkMagazine(BasicNewsRecipe):
+
+    title       = 'New York Magazine'
+    __author__  = 'Kovid Goyal'
+    description = 'Food, culture, arts and entertainment in New York'
+    language    = 'en'
+    no_stylesheets = True
+    remove_javascript = True
+    encoding = 'iso-8859-1'
+    recursions = 1
+    match_regexps = [r'http://nymag.com/.+/index[0-9]{1,2}.html$']
+    keep_only_tags = [dict(id='main')]
+    remove_tags = [
+            dict(attrs={'class':['start-discussion']}),
+            dict(id=['minibrowserbox', 'article-related', 'article-tools'])
+            ]
+
+    PREFIX = 'http://nymag.com'
+
+    def nymag_get_index(self):
+        return self.index_to_soup('http://nymag.com/includes/tableofcontents.htm')
+
+    def parse_index(self):
+        soup = self.nymag_get_index()
+        self.cover_url = soup.find(attrs={'class':'cover'}).find('img',
+                src=True).get('src')
+        feeds = []
+        current_section = 'Cover Story'
+        current_articles = []
+        for h in soup.findAll(['h4', 'h5']):
+            if h.name == 'h4':
+                if current_section and current_articles:
+                    feeds.append((current_section, current_articles))
+                current_section = self.tag_to_string(h)
+                self.log('\tFound section:', current_section)
+                current_articles = []
+            elif h.name == 'h5':
+                title = self.tag_to_string(h)
+                a = h.find('a', href=True)
+                if a is not None:
+                    url = a.get('href')
+                    if url.startswith('/'):
+                        url = self.PREFIX + url
+                    if title and url:
+                        self.log('\t\tFound article:', title)
+                        self.log('\t\t\t', url)
+                        desc = ''
+                        p = h.findNextSibling('p')
+                        if p is not None:
+                            desc = self.tag_to_string(p)
+                            self.log('\t\t\t', desc)
+                        current_articles.append({'title':title, 'url':url,
+                            'date':'', 'description':desc})
+        return feeds
+
+    def postprocess_html(self, soup, first):
+        for x in soup.findAll(attrs={'class':'page-navigation'}):
+            x.extract()
+        if not first:
+            for x in soup.findAll(attrs={'class':'header-spacing'}):
+                x.extract()
+        return soup
+
+
+
diff --git a/resources/recipes/nytimes_sub.recipe b/resources/recipes/nytimes_sub.recipe
index bccfb11bbe..f636b1060f 100644
--- a/resources/recipes/nytimes_sub.recipe
+++ b/resources/recipes/nytimes_sub.recipe
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ class NYTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
     language = 'en'
 
     description = 'Daily news from the New York Times (subscription version)'
-    timefmt = ''
+    timefmt  = ' [%a, %b %d, %Y]'
     needs_subscription = True
     remove_tags_before = dict(id='article')
     remove_tags_after  = dict(id='article')
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ class NYTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
             #open('/t/log.html', 'wb').write(raw)
         return br
 
+    def short_title(self):
+        return 'NY Times'
+
     def parse_index(self):
         soup = self.index_to_soup('http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html')
 
diff --git a/resources/recipes/thenews.recipe b/resources/recipes/thenews.recipe
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7137b4538b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/recipes/thenews.recipe
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+
+class TheNewsRecipe(BasicNewsRecipe):
+    __license__  = 'GPL v3'
+    __author__ = 'kwetal'
+    language = 'en_PK'
+    version = 1
+
+    title = u'The News'
+    publisher = u'Jang Group'
+    category = u'News, Pakistan'
+    description = u'English Newspaper from Pakistan'
+
+    use_embedded_content = False
+    remove_empty_feeds = True
+    oldest_article = 2
+    max_articles_per_feed = 100
+
+    no_stylesheets = True
+    remove_javascript = True
+    encoding = 'iso-8859-1'
+
+    remove_tags = []
+    remove_tags.append(dict(name = 'img', attrs = {'src': 'images/thenews.gif'}))
+    remove_tags.append(dict(name = 'img', attrs = {'src': 'images/shim.gif'}))
+
+    # Feeds from http://thenews.com.pk/rss.asp
+    feeds = []
+    feeds.append((u'Latest Stories', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_updates.xml'))
+    feeds.append((u'Top Stories', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_topstories.xml'))
+    feeds.append((u'World News', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_world.xml'))
+    feeds.append((u'National News', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_national.xml'))
+    feeds.append((u'Business News', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_business.xml'))
+    feeds.append((u'Karachi News', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_karachi.xml'))
+    feeds.append((u'Lahore News', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_lahore.xml'))
+    feeds.append((u'Islamabad News', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_islamabad.xml'))
+    feeds.append((u'Peshawar News', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_peshawar.xml'))
+    feeds.append((u'Editorial', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_editorial.xml'))
+    feeds.append((u'Opinion', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_opinion.xml'))
+    feeds.append((u'Sports News', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_sports.xml'))
+    feeds.append((u'Newspost', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_newspost.xml'))
+
+    conversion_options = {'comments': description, 'tags': category, 'language': 'en',
+                          'publisher': publisher, 'linearize_tables': True}
+
+    extra_css = '''
+                body{font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,geneva,sans-serif;}
+                .heading_txt {font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;}
+                .small_txt {text-align: left;}
+                .dateline {font-size: x-small; color: #696969; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em}
+                '''
+
+
+    def print_version(self, url):
+        ignore, sep, main = url.rpartition('/')
+
+        if main.startswith('updates.asp'):
+            return url.replace('updates.asp', 'print.asp')
+        elif main.startswith('top_story_detail.asp'):
+            return url.replace('top_story_detail.asp', 'print3.asp')
+        elif main.startswith('daily_detail.asp'):
+            return url.replace('daily_detail.asp', 'print1.asp')
+        else:
+            return None
+
+    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
+        for tr in soup.findAll('tr', attrs = {'bgcolor': True}):
+            del tr['bgcolor']
+
+        td = soup.find('td', attrs = {'class': 'small_txt', 'height': '20'})
+        if td:
+            del td['height']
+            td['class'] = 'dateline'
+
+        return soup
+
+
+
diff --git a/setup/installer/linux/freeze.py b/setup/installer/linux/freeze.py
index f5188bbbd0..59f4c2b39e 100644
--- a/setup/installer/linux/freeze.py
+++ b/setup/installer/linux/freeze.py
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ class LinuxFreeze(Command):
             export MAGICK_CONFIGURE_PATH=$base/ImageMagick/config
             export MAGICK_CODER_MODULE_PATH=$base/ImageMagick/modules-Q16/coders
             export MAGICK_CODER_FILTER_PATH=$base/ImageMagick/modules-Q16/filter
-            export QT_PLUGIN_PATH=$base/qtplugins
+            export QT_PLUGIN_PATH=$base/qtplugins:$QT_PLUGIN_PATH
             $loader "$@"
             ''')%exe)
             os.chmod(path, 0755)
diff --git a/setup/installer/osx/app/main.py b/setup/installer/osx/app/main.py
index 4cf995683f..85533717b4 100644
--- a/setup/installer/osx/app/main.py
+++ b/setup/installer/osx/app/main.py
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ class Py2App(object):
     @flush
     def add_qt_frameworks(self):
         info('\nAdding Qt Framework')
-        for f in ('QtCore', 'QtGui', 'QtXml', 'QtNetwork', 'QtSvg', 'QtWebkit',
+        for f in ('QtCore', 'QtGui', 'QtXml', 'QtNetwork', 'QtSvg', 'QtWebKit',
                 'QtXmlPatterns', 'phonon'):
             self.add_qt_framework(f)
         for d in glob.glob(join(SW, 'qt', 'plugins', '*')):
diff --git a/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py b/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py
index 36ffc19cbf..6e0c9321cd 100644
--- a/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py
+++ b/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py
@@ -462,6 +462,7 @@ plugins += [
     ILIAD,
     IREXDR1000,
     JETBOOK,
+    SHINEBOOK,
     KINDLE,
     KINDLE2,
     KINDLE_DX,
@@ -480,7 +481,6 @@ plugins += [
     POCKETBOOK360,
     GER2,
     ITALICA,
-    SHINEBOOK,
     ECLICTO,
     DBOOK,
     BOOX,
diff --git a/src/calibre/devices/eb600/driver.py b/src/calibre/devices/eb600/driver.py
index 9be9e27864..fe89e57a94 100644
--- a/src/calibre/devices/eb600/driver.py
+++ b/src/calibre/devices/eb600/driver.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Windows PNP strings:
 '''
 
 from calibre.devices.usbms.driver import USBMS
+from calibre.constants import iswindows
 
 class EB600(USBMS):
 
@@ -81,6 +82,19 @@ class SHINEBOOK(EB600):
 
     VENDOR_NAME      = 'LONGSHIN'
     WINDOWS_MAIN_MEM = 'ESHINEBOOK'
+    MAIN_MEMORY_VOLUME_LABEL  = 'ShineBook Main Memory'
+    STORAGE_CARD_VOLUME_LABEL = 'ShineBook Storage Card'
+
+
+    @classmethod
+    def can_handle(cls, dev, debug=False):
+        try:
+            if not iswindows:
+                return dev[4] == 'ShineBook'
+        except:
+            return True
+
+
 
 class POCKETBOOK360(EB600):
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/ui.py b/src/calibre/gui2/ui.py
index 4e30c0fab5..b847186c2a 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/ui.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/ui.py
@@ -1736,6 +1736,16 @@ class Main(MainWindow, Ui_MainWindow, DeviceGUI):
                 d.show()
                 self._modeless_dialogs.append(d)
                 return
+            if 'calibre.web.feeds.input.RecipeDisabled' in job.details:
+                msg = job.details
+                msg = msg[msg.find('calibre.web.feeds.input.RecipeDisabled:'):]
+                msg = msg.partition(':')[-1]
+                d = error_dialog(self, _('Recipe Disabled'),
+                    '<p>%s</p>'%msg)
+                d.setModal(False)
+                d.show()
+                self._modeless_dialogs.append(d)
+                return
         except:
             pass
         if job.killed:
diff --git a/src/calibre/manual/faq.rst b/src/calibre/manual/faq.rst
index 8a9eb6b23f..0319f5bb21 100644
--- a/src/calibre/manual/faq.rst
+++ b/src/calibre/manual/faq.rst
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Device Integration
 
 What devices does |app| support?
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-At the moment |app| has full support for the SONY PRS 300/500/505/600/700/900, Barnes & Noble Nook, Cybook Gen 3/Opus, Amazon Kindle 1/2/DX, Netronix EB600, Ectaco Jetbook, BeBook/BeBook Mini, Irex Illiad/DR1000, Foxit eSlick, PocketBook 360, Italica, eClicto, Iriver Story, Airis dBook, various Android phones and the iPhone. In addition, using the :guilabel:`Save to disk` function you can use it with any ebook reader that exports itself as a USB disk.
+At the moment |app| has full support for the SONY PRS 300/500/505/600/700/900, Barnes & Noble Nook, Cybook Gen 3/Opus, Amazon Kindle 1/2/DX, Longshine ShineBook, Ectaco Jetbook, BeBook/BeBook Mini, Irex Illiad/DR1000, Foxit eSlick, PocketBook 360, Italica, eClicto, Iriver Story, Airis dBook, various Android phones and the iPhone. In addition, using the :guilabel:`Save to disk` function you can use it with any ebook reader that exports itself as a USB disk.
 
 How can I help get my device supported in |app|?
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ Your antivirus program is wrong. |app| is a completely open source product. You
 
 How do I use purchased EPUB books with |app|?
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Most purchased EPUB books have `DRM <http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/DRM>`_. This prevents |app| from opening them. You can still use |app| to store and transfer them to your SONY Reader. First, you must authorize your reader on a windows machine with Adobe Digital Editions. Once this is done, EPUB books transferred with |app| will work fine on your reader. Sometimes, the EPUB file itself is corrupted, in which case you should notify the e-book vendor.
+Most purchased EPUB books have `DRM <http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/DRM>`_. This prevents |app| from opening them. You can still use |app| to store and transfer them to your SONY Reader. First, you must authorize your reader on a windows machine with Adobe Digital Editions. Once this is done, EPUB books transferred with |app| will work fine on your reader. When you purchase an epub book from a website, you will get an ".acsm" file. This file should be opened with Adobe Digital Editions, which will then download the actual ".epub" e-book. The e-book file will be stored in the folder "My Digital Editions", from where you can add it to |app|.
 
 
 I want some feature added to |app|. What can I do?
diff --git a/src/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py b/src/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py
index a53d1818ba..3d04298a65 100644
--- a/src/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py
+++ b/src/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py
@@ -73,6 +73,12 @@ def get_func(name):
     return func, notification
 
 def main():
+    from calibre.constants import isosx
+    if isosx and 'CALIBRE_WORKER_ADDRESS' not in os.environ:
+        # On some OS X computers launchd apparently tries to
+        # launch the last run process from the bundle
+        from calibre.gui2.main import main as gui_main
+        return gui_main(['calibre'])
     address = cPickle.loads(unhexlify(os.environ['CALIBRE_WORKER_ADDRESS']))
     key     = unhexlify(os.environ['CALIBRE_WORKER_KEY'])
     resultf = unhexlify(os.environ['CALIBRE_WORKER_RESULT'])
diff --git a/src/calibre/utils/localization.py b/src/calibre/utils/localization.py
index 64dadb89e4..14b7b32c8c 100644
--- a/src/calibre/utils/localization.py
+++ b/src/calibre/utils/localization.py
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ _extra_lang_codes = {
         'en_IN' : _('English (IND)'),
         'en_TH' : _('English (TH)'),
         'en_CY' : _('English (CY)'),
+        'en_PK' : _('English (PK)'),
         'de_AT' : _('German (AT)'),
         'nl'    : _('Dutch (NL)'),
         'nl_BE' : _('Dutch (BE)'),
diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/input.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/input.py
index 5882dd8e7a..5015c1bef2 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/feeds/input.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/input.py
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ import os
 from calibre.customize.conversion import InputFormatPlugin, OptionRecommendation
 from calibre.constants import numeric_version
 
+class RecipeDisabled(Exception):
+    pass
+
 class RecipeInput(InputFormatPlugin):
 
     name        = 'Recipe Input'
@@ -40,7 +43,7 @@ class RecipeInput(InputFormatPlugin):
                 'content.')),
         OptionRecommendation(name='dont_download_recipe',
             recommended_value=False,
-            help=_('Download latest version of builtin recipes')),
+            help=_('Do not download latest version of builtin recipes from the calibre server')),
         OptionRecommendation(name='lrf', recommended_value=False,
             help='Optimize fetching for subsequent conversion to LRF.'),
         ])
@@ -83,6 +86,9 @@ class RecipeInput(InputFormatPlugin):
                     recipe_or_file)
 
         ro = recipe(opts, log, self.report_progress)
+        disabled = getattr(ro, 'recipe_disabled', None)
+        if disabled is not None:
+            raise RecipeDisabled(disabled)
         ro.download()
         self.recipe_object = ro
         for key, val in recipe.conversion_options.items():
diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py
index bffe0b7f34..789710d764 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py
@@ -270,11 +270,18 @@ class BasicNewsRecipe(Recipe):
             .navbar {
                 font-family:monospace;
             }
-'''
+    '''
+
+    #: Set to a non empty string to disable this recipe
+    #: The string will be used as the disabled message
+    recipe_disabled = None
 
 
     # See the built-in profiles for examples of these settings.
 
+    def short_title(self):
+        return self.title
+
     def get_cover_url(self):
         '''
         Return a :term:`URL` to the cover image for this issue or `None`.
@@ -886,7 +893,7 @@ class BasicNewsRecipe(Recipe):
     def create_opf(self, feeds, dir=None):
         if dir is None:
             dir = self.output_dir
-        mi = MetaInformation(self.title + strftime(self.timefmt), [__appname__])
+        mi = MetaInformation(self.short_title() + strftime(self.timefmt), [__appname__])
         mi.publisher = __appname__
         mi.author_sort = __appname__
         mi.publication_type = 'periodical:'+self.publication_type