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| author | Nick White <git@njw.me.uk> | 2011-10-08 11:55:21 +0100 |
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| committer | Nick White <git@njw.me.uk> | 2011-10-08 11:55:21 +0100 |
| commit | e79fe370ec4a2478046a4dda7026fcadaefcf931 (patch) | |
| tree | 0ad393f1b7cadd0d35fe6e5ecaad4ec3dd1d20ac /getgbook.1 | |
| parent | 67cac80cd657640f07ff57d6bf3419170082693d (diff) | |
Add notes to getgbook man page
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@@ -29,3 +29,18 @@ line). is the unique ID Google assigns to each book. It is 12 characters long. It can be found by looking for the 'id=' part of the URL of its Google Books page. +.SH NOTES +Some pages of "limited preview" books are never available. +.PP +Book pages vary in availability depending on the location of +your IP. +.PP +getgbook will not try to download pages that have already +been downloaded, so stopping and then starting it later will +continue from where it left off. +.PP +getgbook uses several cookies to get as many pages as possible. +However Google Books also limits the number of pages based on +IP address, for 24 hours. Therefore if not all pages are +downloaded it may be worth rerunning getgbook in 24 hours, or +from a different IP. |