Obtain Free Microsoft eBooks with Chrono for Chrome

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Video: Obtain Free Microsoft eBooks with Chrono for Chrome

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   Open Google Chrome with the Chrono extension and click the search bar

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   Type "free microsoft ebooks" into the Google search

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   Press "enter"

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   Search results will include a blog post from Eric Ligman ("I'm giving away MILLIONS of FREE Microsoft eBooks...") that you should click.

   

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   Alternatively, just click this Microsoft blog link

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   In this blog post, there are over 200 books that you can download for free. They are a little bit difficult to download, and he explains that he would like to have more control on the author's side: if he or she wants to edit or change something, instead of offering a new ZIP file with all of the downloads, he or she can change a specific URL. Also, he or she may choose not to offer that book in the future.

   

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   You may need to scroll down slightly to click the "How to enable 'Download All' " link.This link is located to the right of the blue "Download All" button

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   The workaround that Eric Ligman has created in order to maintain control of the author and publisher's rights is to provide links to individual files as a text document.

   

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   Scroll down until you see a checkmark icon

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   To obtain a file with links, click a checkmark with a notepad icon

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   It is next to the message that reads "If you right-click the icon to the right and select 'Save Target As', it will let you download a list of the links in a single .TXT file for all of the eBooks included in my latest post". Clicking the checkmark icon will provide you with a text document.

   

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   You can highlight ("command" + "A") and copy ("command" + "C") all of the text in this document

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   Then, click the Chrono extension in Google Chrome

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   It's near the upper-right corner of the window. You will need to have this extension downloaded and installed in order to use it.

   

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    In the drop-down menu, click "Open Manager"

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    Using Chrono, set up a task to download all of the links copied into the buffer.

    

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    To add the download task, click the green "New Task" plus sign at the top of the window

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    Click the text box next to "URL" and press "command" + "V" to paste the list that you have copied from the text document

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    Delete the top line, since it is not a URL

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    With the links pasted, click the "Start!" button at the bottom of this pop-up box

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    The eBooks will be automatically downloaded one by one.

    

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