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mediaimmediately– butif youwant
tokeepthefileforeverthenyou’ll
needtodownloadit.
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comein.Theseprogramscanslash
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downloadbybreakingthemupinto
smallerchunks.Theycanalsoresume
downloadsautomaticallyif your
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hiccup,andsomecanevenconvert
filestodifferentformats.Inour
opinion,NinjaDownloadManageris
oneofthebestdownloadmanagers
around– andit’scompletelyfree.1 GetNinjaDownloadManager
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and paid. Togetthefreeone,visitninjadownloadmanager.com,
scroll to thebottomofthepageandselectForWindows.Runthe
setup file, readthetermsandselect‘I accepttheagreement’.Click
‘Next’ to finishinstallingtheapp,thenclickLaunchNDM.When
the programlaunches,select‘Continueinfreemode’.2 Copy a file link
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domain. Visit http://www.gutenberg.org and select or search for a book.
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one of the EPUB options and select ‘Copy link location’. You can
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