getabook.1

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.TH GETABOOK 1 getabook\-VERSION
.SH NAME
getabook \- downloads books from amazon
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B getabook
.RB [-n]
.RB asin
.SH 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.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-n
Downloads from page numbers given on stdin (one number per
line).
.TP
.B 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.
.SH EXAMPLES
.TP
.B download all available pages of a book
getabook 161293031X
.TP
.B download pages 5 - 10 of a book
seq 5 10 | getabook -n 161293031X
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR getbnbook (1),
.IR getgbook (1),
.IR getxbookgui (1)