How to download loads of books from Project Gutenberg easily!

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Borrowed this from Puppy Linux Discussion Forum :: View topic - Free books from Project Gutenberg! Credit for this goes to sc0ttman for posting this.

Open up a terminal and type 'wget' then hit enter.
You will see all the options for this download tool.

You can use this tool to download load of stuff

Here is a link to all the books at Project Gutenberg (May, 2011):

http://www.gutenberg.org/feeds/offline-package.tar.bz2

extract tar to get a list of books in your favorite text editor.

To download list in terminal

wget -w 2 http://www.gutenberg.org/feeds/offline-package.tar.bz2

Extract

Below are some more examples to download free books from the project gutenburg library.
These examples use Project Gutenbergs 'harvest' API to search the database of books.

Guide:

1. This is an example of how to get all files using wget:

wget -w 2 -m http://www.gutenberg.org/robot/harvest

2. If you don't want the mp3 files, say:

wget -w 2 -m -R "mp3" http://www.gutenberg.org/robot/harvest

3. If you want only some types of files say:

wget -w 2 -m http://www.gutenberg.org/robot/harvest?filetypes[]=txt&filetypes[]=html

NOTE: Replace txt and html with the file types you are interested in.

4. If you want only files in a given language say:

wget -w 2 -m http://www.gutenberg.org/robot/harvest?langs[]=de

Free books are always Good.