diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/images/news/carta.png b/src/calibre/gui2/images/news/carta.png
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diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
index e522db86eb..968ed9a6f0 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ recipe_modules = ['recipe_' + r for r in (
            'stackoverflow', 'telepolis_artikel', 'zaobao', 'usnews',
            'straitstimes', 'index_hu', 'pcworld_hu', 'hrt', 'rts',
            'h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'phd_comics', 'woz_die', 'elektrolese',
-           'climate_progress',
+           'climate_progress', 'carta',
           )]
 
 import re, imp, inspect, time, os
diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_carta.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_carta.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2504b74c67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_carta.py
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+__license__   = 'GPL v3'
+__copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>'
+
+'''
+Fetch Carta.info.
+'''
+
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+
+
+class Carta(BasicNewsRecipe):
+
+    title = u'Carta'
+    description = 'News about electronic publishing'
+    __author__ = 'Oliver Niesner'
+    use_embedded_content   = False
+    timefmt = ' [%a %d %b %Y]'
+    oldest_article = 7
+    max_articles_per_feed = 50
+    no_stylesheets = True
+    remove_javascript = True
+    #html2epub_options = 'linearize_tables = True\nbase_font_size2=14'
+    encoding = 'utf-8'
+    language = _('German')
+
+
+    remove_tags_after = [dict(name='p', attrs={'class':'tags-blog'})]
+
+    remove_tags = [dict(name='p', attrs={'class':'print'}),
+                   dict(name='p', attrs={'class':'tags-blog'}),
+                   dict(name='p', attrs={'class':'mail'}),
+                   dict(name='p', attrs={'style':'text-align: center;'}),
+                   dict(name='p', attrs={'align':'left'}),
+                   dict(name='p', attrs={'class':'date'}),
+                   dict(id='comments'),
+                   dict(id='headerleft'),
+                   dict(id='subnav'),
+                   dict(id='headerright')]
+
+
+    feeds =  [ (u'Carta', u'http://feeds2.feedburner.com/carta-standard-rss') ]
+
+
+    def print_version(self, url):
+        return url + 'print/'