Well, your point about automated retrieval may be true but I think the 'spirit of the law' is that the rule is designated to keep people from hitting their servers too hard. Anyway, the reason I want to be able to do this is I really don't have the time to sit and read the books online, so I made some changes to the code in node 300762 (see my scratchpad) to be able to simply read the text. I then record the stuff onto tape and listen to it while driving.

It would be nice if I could automatically load the next portion of text, trim the file to a suitable length to fit onto the tape, and have everything ready so that I could pop in a tape, hit record, and eat breakfast.