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Originally Posted by Shaggy
Convenience, mostly. I can see how downloading a large group of Public Domain books at once, instead of having to hunt around for individual titles, would be nice. Sure, you may not be interested in all of them, but it's a lot easier to sort through the collection once you have it on your local PC than to try and sort through various sites looking for specific stuff. As you say, book downloads are not very big so grabbing a large set wouldn't take up that much bandwidth.
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Umm, I am not sure how it would be easier to download a block of books and then sort through them with whatever tool you have than using the fairly decent web interfaces that PG, Manybooks and others have set up. I will grant that finding books in M.R. is a bit more hit and miss (i.e., it helps if you know exactly what you are looking for).
In any case, if one really wanted to bulk download, it wouldn't be that hard to write a web crawler to access some of these sites (Though I suspect it would violate the terms of service on at least a few of them).
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Bill