The links to download these 408 files are in a text file, which would be trivial to automagically download with something like wget or Firefox’s DownThemAll plugin, but I decided to do it with Chrome.
I tried several different download managers and was about to give up and just use wget* when I found Chrono Download Manager which made it easy.
*I strongly dislike Firefox’s fairly random “works one day and doesn’t the next because they think general users make good alpha testers” and thus I’ve pretty much stopped using it except for occasional testing. I tell my users to use Chrome or IE or Safari first.
Thanks @mikibell for posting this!
I meant to, but I was trying to put together a better post telling more about the selection, but never got to it then.
Looking through the list of crap on offer, and clicking on a few of em… when did two pages with nothing but a table of shortcut keys become enough to qualify is an “eBook”? A large chunk of em look to be like that- small tidbits of info that you already know, or don’t need to know except under highly specific circumstances, and in any event could easily be found if the need arose with a single quick search of the internet hive mind. There are a few actual books scattered about in there that could conceivably be worth holding on to, but the rest I’d label a complete waste of space to download, even at the tiny file sizes.
My TBR files and piles are already too big. That’s not stopping me. Thanks!
@OldCatLady Go here and pick and choose…
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mssmallbiz/2016/07/10/free-thats-right-im-giving-away-millions-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-again-including-windows-10-office-365-office-2016-power-bi-azure-windows-8-1-office-2013-sharepoint-2016-sha/
@Kidsandliz I did. Thanks. That does not mean I have the time to read all the books. OTOH, no dusting required.
I got bored reading it…
The links to download these 408 files are in a text file, which would be trivial to automagically download with something like wget or Firefox’s DownThemAll plugin, but I decided to do it with Chrome.
I tried several different download managers and was about to give up and just use wget* when I found Chrono Download Manager which made it easy.
*I strongly dislike Firefox’s fairly random “works one day and doesn’t the next because they think general users make good alpha testers” and thus I’ve pretty much stopped using it except for occasional testing. I tell my users to use Chrome or IE or Safari first.
Thanks @mikibell for posting this!
I meant to, but I was trying to put together a better post telling more about the selection, but never got to it then.
Looking through the list of crap on offer, and clicking on a few of em… when did two pages with nothing but a table of shortcut keys become enough to qualify is an “eBook”? A large chunk of em look to be like that- small tidbits of info that you already know, or don’t need to know except under highly specific circumstances, and in any event could easily be found if the need arose with a single quick search of the internet hive mind. There are a few actual books scattered about in there that could conceivably be worth holding on to, but the rest I’d label a complete waste of space to download, even at the tiny file sizes.