NAME

getabook - downloads books from amazon

SYNOPSIS

getabook [-n] asin

DESCRIPTION

getabook downloads pages of books from amazon's "look inside the book" service. Some pages are not available, in which case they will be skipped.

OPTIONS

-n

Downloads from page numbers given on stdin (one number per line).

asin

is the unique ID Amazon assigns to each product. It is 10 characters long. It can be found by looking for the ´/xxxxxxxxxx/´ part of the URL of its Amazon page. In the case of a book it will generally be the same as the ISBN-10 number.

EXAMPLES

download all available pages of a book

getabook 161293031X

download pages 5 - 10 of a book

seq 5 10 | getabook -n 161293031X

SEE ALSO

getbnbook(1), getgbook(1), getxbookgui(1)