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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. |