diff --git a/src/calibre/library/test.py b/src/calibre/library/test.py
index 1a81755971..86363b439c 100644
--- a/src/calibre/library/test.py
+++ b/src/calibre/library/test.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 Unit tests for database layer.
 '''
 
-import sys, unittest, os
+import sys, unittest, os, cStringIO
 from itertools import repeat
 
 from calibre.ptempfile import PersistentTemporaryDirectory
@@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ class DBTest(unittest.TestCase):
             self.assertEqual(ga(self.m2, p), ga(m2, p))
         
         self.assertEqual(self.db.format(1, 'txt', index_is_id=True), 'test')
+        self.assertEqual(self.db.formats(1, index_is_id=True), 'TXT')
+        self.db.add_format(1, 'html', cStringIO.StringIO('<html/>'), index_is_id=True)
+        self.assertEqual(self.db.formats(1, index_is_id=True), 'HTML,TXT')
+        self.db.remove_format(1, 'html', index_is_id=True)
+        self.assertEqual(self.db.formats(1, index_is_id=True), 'TXT')
         self.assertNotEqual(self.db.cover(1, index_is_id=True), None)
         self.assertEqual(self.db.cover(2, index_is_id=True), None)
         
@@ -76,6 +81,12 @@ class DBTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual('new auth', self.db.authors(2))
         self.assertEqual(self.db.format(3, 'txt', index_is_id=True), 'test')
         
+    def testSorting(self):
+        self.db.sort('authors', True)
+        self.assertEqual(self.db.authors(0), 'Test Author 1')
+        self.db.sort('rating', False)
+        self.assertEqual(self.db.rating(0), 3)
+        
     
 def suite():
     return unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromTestCase(DBTest)
diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/nytimes.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/nytimes.py
index 17fe1b9b1b..de431d6532 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/nytimes.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/nytimes.py
@@ -5,9 +5,10 @@ __copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>'
 '''
 nytimes.com
 '''
-import string
+import string, re
 from calibre import strftime
 from calibre.web.feeds.recipes import BasicNewsRecipe
+from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
 
 class NYTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
     
@@ -57,7 +58,8 @@ class NYTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
                 a = div.find('a', href=True)
                 if not a:
                     continue
-                url = self.print_version(a['href'])
+                url = re.sub(r'\?.*', '', a['href'])
+                url += '?pagewanted=print'
                 title = self.tag_to_string(a, use_alt=True).strip()
                 description = ''
                 pubdate = strftime('%a, %d %b')
@@ -77,7 +79,10 @@ class NYTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
         ans = [(key, articles[key]) for key in ans if articles.has_key(key)]
         return ans
     
-    def print_version(self, url):
-        if url.endswith('?&pagewanted=print'):
-            return url
-        return url + '?&pagewanted=print'
+    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
+        refresh = soup.find('meta', {'http-equiv':'refresh'})
+        if refresh is None:
+            return soup
+        content = refresh.get('content').partition('=')[2]
+        raw = self.browser.open('http://www.nytimes.com'+content).read()
+        return BeautifulSoup(raw.decode('cp1252', 'replace'))