Hey Man, thanks for the offer! (that's a pun). Another member of tclug was kind enough to send me the Beginner's Guide. The other one that would download only some kind of 13K preamble was "Plant Anatomy," but that one is huge (about 150 MB according to the first good Samaritan). If anyone has something like Google Drive that they could upload it to, I would be grateful for a shareable link. Otherwise, I could get along without it. I did download one at a time about 50 others. Now I would like to know why this glitch cropped up but I am not likely to figure it out. I am only an occasional user of linux (mint 19) and I know almost nothing about python. Thanks, Ed On 5/2/2020 18:58, r hayman wrote: > My > 'A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming - John Hunt, 1sr ed. 2019 - > 978-3-030-20290-3.epub' is 27.2 MB > and my > 'A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming - John Hunt, 1sr ed. 2019 - > 978-3-030-20290-3.pdf' is 30.5 MB. > > I'm not sure what happened to your download, but I'd be willing to share > also if you can't resolve the issue. > > > On Fri, 2020-05-01 at 23:17 -0500, eminmn wrote: >> Thanks for this. There are many useful volumes here but one of the most >> interesting to me was A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming (Hunt), >> which unfortunately is illegible. Both epub and pdf are of identical >> size as reported by the system (about 13K). Looked at in Emacs it seems >> to be some kind of binary index file. The hard copy book is 433 pp. Even >> plain text couldn't be compressed that much. >> >> Thanks, >> Ed >> >> On 4/30/2020 17:03, r hayman wrote: >>> Just passing this along to those that might be interested. Springer >>> books released for free during the 2020 COVID-19 quarantine. No idea >>> when this will end. The list of books can be found here >>> https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/17858272/data/v4 >>> This GitHub repo has more info (links) and a python script to >>> download all 409 books, or subsets of them. >>> https://github.com/alexgand/springer_free_books Plan on a 4+ hour >>> download window if you want copies of them all, there's about 14GB. I >>> think the Springer site has throttled the download speed, I'm only >>> getting ~2.4Mbps. _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >