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Originally Posted by Difflugia
The books are stored as unzipped epub directories for their online reading software, so they can be downloaded and reassembled into the original epubs.
The books have all been placed under a Creative Commons license, so they can be redistributed by anyone to anyone as long as the source is acknowledged and it's non-commercial. I don't know what's behind NYU's decision to not provide download links, but I didn't see anything on the site restricting downloading the individual files. I've put together a list of Windows batch files that will download and assemble the epubs.
As long as wget and zip have been installed and "C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin" is in your executable path, you can double-click any of the batch files. An epub will be created in the same folder as the batch file. The batch files will also work as UNIX shell scripts if you specifically invoke the shell (i.e. "/bin/bash dl_9780814706404.bat").
If you decide to download all 62 books, keep in mind that you'll be downloading about 500 MB of data. |
Thanks for all of the invaluable technical information!
I'm not sure that I understood it all (ha), but I understood enough to see that some people might appreciate knowing about "read online" only ebooks that I run across. And I do run across a lot of them. So, I will begin to pass them along when I find some that are excellent quality and that I think that MobileReaders might be interested in. I'm sure that I'll have occasion many times to refer people to your post above for help in downloading them.
The 500 MB would not present an issue with any data limit on the home Internet. And it is fast, but it would still take a few minutes to download all of them (when I get down on how slow downloads like that are, I make myself remember the dial-up days; then I become more patient. ha).