Free Microsoft eBooks

scupper on 12/07/2017 - 13:52
Last edited 12/07/2017 - 13:57 by 1 other user

Here's a bunch of Microsoft eBooks for you to just download and not get around to reading.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mssmallbiz/2017/07/11/large…

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  Ryanek on 12/07/2017 - 14:58

  Cool thanks, I downloaded a few.

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  Danni L on 13/07/2017 - 17:10

  +10

  You can use this powershell script to download all the books (in this example to C:\msdownloads)

  
  $downloaddir = "C:\msbookdownload"
  mkdir $downloaddir
  
  function Save-Books
  {
      PARAM (
          $BookUrl,
          $DestinationFolder
      )
  
      $response = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $BookUrl
      $filename = [System.IO.Path]::GetFileName($response.BaseResponse.ResponseUri.OriginalString)
      $filepath = [System.IO.Path]::Combine($DestinationFolder, $filename)
      try
      {
          $filestream = [System.IO.File]::Create($filepath)
          $response.RawContentStream.WriteTo($filestream)
          $filestream.Close()
      }
      finally
      {
          if ($filestream)
          {
              $filestream.Dispose();
          }
      }
  }   
  
  ((Invoke-WebRequest https://goo.gl/nYBjZn).Links | 
      Where-Object {$_.href -like "*http://ligman.me/*"}).href | 
      ForEach-Object { Save-Books -BookUrl $_ -DestinationFolder $downloaddir }
  
  

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    ulun-lpg on 13/07/2017 - 21:00

    didnt test it but you are da real mvp!

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    SnakeDoctor on 16/07/2017 - 10:59

    cheers - weighs in at 3.43GB for 360 files :-)

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    nige0090 on 12/07/2019 - 22:34

    Thanks, I got 331 files at 3.37GB

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  doublezero1 on 15/07/2017 - 07:04

  +1

  thanks for this post!