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I just found out about this http://worldebookfair.com/

Free Access to the public from July 4th to August 4th, in celebration of Project Gutenberg's 35th Birthday

July 4th-August 4, 2006
Download your selections from 1/3 million free eBooks.

They may not have the most recent ones out there (programming/tech books ), but they have a lot of other good ones.

I got myself a book on tensor (I have always wanted to read about these and never had a chance)and some recipes books (yes, italian, french and a bunch of others)

Cheers!

Wow, looks interesting. And, they're all free! And legal!

I wonder how good the recipe ebooks are... my sister and dad might appreciate those... thanks!

:D

... I think it's time to write a nice lil' "download 300 000 ebooks" script

Great link, thanks!

al_tyranny wrote:

... I think it's time to write a nice lil' "download 300 000 ebooks" script

Great link, thanks!

haha i never thought about that.
what would you do with 300000 ebooks anyway ?
but out of curiosity how would you actually go about doing that ?

Now I can get myself a recipe book, my gf would be really glad Thanks for the link, I was able to help my sister regarding her research study and paid me

Well you can try to use the search engine ^^
But I will make your searching easier, click

p.s LOL I didnt know that there is so much kinds of cook books (e.g Cookbook for pizza, Cookbook for chicken etc )

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dama wrote:haha i never thought about that.
what would you do with 300000 ebooks anyway ? :D
but out of curiosity how would you actually go about doing that ?

Well, "for curiosity," ...

Standard Disclaimer: I did not actually make a "retrieve-all script"; that was a joke. And I didn't force anyone else to do it either. So go elsewhere with your legal mambo-jambo :D

There's a link to the entire collections (each is linked to the actual "storage" website). It also tells how many ebooks there are in each collection.

In each collection's site, it either has all the downloads on the first page or under a "browse complete selection" link (if you find the "10 000 more downloads here" link, you might as well skip the ones on the homepage). Then you just look for download links (most of the ebooks are ".pdf" or ".txt," a very small amount are ".html") and save them.

When you've downloaded all the ebooks on one page, look for the "Page 2" or "Next Page" link, and get that page, repeat until you can't find any more download links (you could also try until the number of ebooks they say they have is how many you've downloaded, but that number could possible be outdated).

By the way, I checked it out, got a bunch of good stuff: Candide, Hamlet, Thus Spoke Zarathusa, The Anti-Christ, C++ Programming, Dracula, Linux Complete Command, Faust, Inferno ...

I think you get the point :D

I have found a few books that interest me, but they have a very limited selection on theoretical physics and cryptography.

krod wrote:I have found a few books that interest me, but they have a very limited selection on theoretical physics and cryptography.

which one are you looking for?
I have some books that you might like.

I'm looking to find a good book on matlab. Has anyone seen such books on the website list above?

I got some cooking ones as well, I'll cook up a storm when I can tear myself away from my computer

update: looks like they're still doing it (with even more books than before):

http://www.netlibrary.net/
http://worldebookfair.com/

Cheers!

Many thanks for the link. It was horrendesly useful to me in finding a couple of good fantasy books.... Really, really thanks; i knew a couple of the old sites that house some collections, but didnt knew about this.
Thanks

Thanks for the info! It's much appreciated!

Thanks a lot, really appreciate your finding.

Hopefully I can find something interesting to read about.