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Hey, they have Bruce Sterling's Hacker Crackdown! Sweet, I've always wanted to read that. Thanks for the link, quid! Posts: 6316 | Registered: Jun 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Dagonee: Firefox + DownThemAll + the Collections pages = ebook bliss!
I don't plan to do this at worldebook but how do you "deep" download? I am able to download only those files that are directly linked if I use FlashGot. Thanks in advance!
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Does anyone have any recommendations from the site? I've found a handfull of interesting books, but a lot of it seems to be obscure government documents. I'm kind of having trouble sifting through it all.
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Baen has an excellent selection of science fiction (all also available at their site www.baen.com).Posts: 7790 | Registered: Aug 2000
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There is a robots.txt file up, so if you wish to respect it, do not use these methods. However, there is no policy posted on the website, so it is impossible to know if they intended it to mean no downloading of files in a user-initiated process (a grey area, since its only sort of a bot-like action).
These are wget command lines.
If you want to download the html pages, pdfs, and text files for the whole site, so you can browse your local collection like the website:
Everything will be in a directory called worldebookfair.com .
If you just want the PDFs:
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wget -rA pdf -nd -e robots=off --limit-rate=50k -P mydirectorytosavethemin http://worldebookfair.com/Collections.htm
They'll all go in the directory called mydirectorytosavethemin
The limit-rate option is there to keep your connection usable and prevent swamping the site. Remove or alter at your own risk.
There are also ebooks as mp3s, .lit files, and movies; if you want any help in modifying my commands to download those, just ask. I don't include those because they would significantly increase the size of the downloads.
edit: modified to include information about other formats, add txt file downloading.
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Oh yeah, be warned, this is many gigs of ebooks. I can also help set it up to just download the books in a particular collection, if so desired.
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I do not know which, if any, options would be different in that case. Use at your own risk, of course.
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