Eric Ligman – Microsoft Senior Sales Excellence Manager – puts his collection of Microsoft books online for anyone to download. These are PDF’s of the full books that would cost a small fortune to purchase.
This is from an official Microsoft Blog and is sanctioned by Microsoft.
No tricks, no catches.
Just go to this link and fill your boots 🙂
Huge collection of Free Microsoft eBooks
The link on this page lets you download the books individually or download a file with links to each book. This is a bit of a pain as there are over 200 of them, so I have written a script (nothing clever just a bunch of wgets) that will download the whole lot (one by one).
The script is available here https://www.uatechserv.com/downloads/DownloadMSFTEbooks.cmd.txt
Right click on this link and select “Save as”. Make sure the name you save it as ends in .CMD NOT .TXT (Just remove the .TXT I have added).
You will need to either use a machine (Linux or Mac??) that already has wget or install it on your Windows PC (it is actually a really useful tool).
You can get wget from here…
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm
Or here
https://www.uatechserv.com/downloads/wget-1.11.4-1-setup.exe
Once it is installed make sure that you have the location of the wget.exe in your machines search path and then create a new folder. Put my script in it and then click on it. It will open a Dos box up and start to download the files one, by one. Depending on your internet speed this may take some time.
It is not a clever script and so, if you stop it and re-run it, don’t be surprised if you get the odd error, because files already exist. Also you may find that the Microsoft server may say that you already have a connection (just leave it for a while and try again).
If you have any issues, drop me an email. But this really is as simple as it looks.
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