Let’s say I need to grab a large EPUB/PDF (60MB+) from a site with multiple mirrors. What often happens is I go the mirror, cut/paste the link, and watch as the file slowly trickles in before ultimately failing.
So I go to the next mirror and the process repeats.
Is there a way I can plug all the separate links into a software manager and download the file concurrently in chunks from the different servers, torrent style? Or at least resume the download at a fresh link?
I downloaded Persepolis on Linux Mint, but it doesn’t seem to do anything differently than the browser.
Yeah, they’re the servers with the countdown time to start the download.
No idea what they want me to download a net of 200MB to get a 30MB file that fails at 10MB a bunch of times. Seems like they’re wasting bandwidth.
If these are e-books you’re looking for, you may want to try soulseek. It’s promoted a lot on here for music downloads, but I’ve gotten almost all my e-books from there, too.
Oh, nice. Unfortunately, I use a hotspot and VPN, so I don’t think I can open the ports i need to share my library, so i get blacklisted pretty quickly as a leecher.
Maybe try xdcc? You might have wait times of you leech a huge amount, but speeds are usually fast and no ads and b.s. , but you might get mislabelled content at times.
Ah, yeah, I can see where that would be an issue. I don’t use a VPN for Soulseek since it’s not really needed, but I seem to recall reading that it can be configured to work behind a VPN. However, the VPN provider must have port forwarding. And the configuration process may understandably be more effort than you’d want to put into downloading ebooks.