Last main post update : 2017-10-04

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Thanks!

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Thanks a lot! Nice selection of upcoming free books in the next days, too!

EDIT: Ah, I'm blind... I'm guessing I've missed the past few free books :(

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Yes, we don't know in advance which book will be given away each day ^^

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in case you missed some
https://file.legit.id/packt/?C=M&O=D

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Thanks a lot, I really appreciate it! Lots of good reading there, too!!

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Thanks!!! :-)

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awesome, you a real cat, many thanks

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Thank you kindly.

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+1! Thanks a lot again Sweetnr for updating your link's contents!

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glad it helps :)

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epub versions added!

though sorting by date is quite broken because epub versions are newly added ^^

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Thanks one more time!!!

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Thank you! By the way, do you have the .mobi versions?

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Storage wise, no...
but you can try converting epub to mobi like Sighery said ^^

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you are beautiful and deserve all the cookies

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<3<3<3<3<3<3<3

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My virus scan is probably stupid and flagging all these files as malicious.

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Permanently whitelisted for being helpful, thank you very much.

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Huge thankies for sharing!

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Thanks. I missed some so this was really helpful. Whitelisted you.

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Hi! As Omicron666 noticed yesterday, they've now added a captcha to the claim page, does your script still work? I'm not sure how you scheduled it, but right now today's book ("Effective Python Penetration Testing") is not available on your site :/

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Thanks for notifying, looks like the ebook auto claim script I'm using is broken because of captcha
but -da command (which is download all claimed ebook) still works, so basically i just need to claim the ebook manually and let my server download it later as scheduled

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dude, you are awesome! I mean it :)

6 years ago
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have my whitelist too, thx for that!

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much obliged

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thank you!

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Cool, thanks.

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Do they send the link to my email or something? Or do they just need it at the start to register me?

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You have to register to their website, then you can claim the free book.

Book is added to your library in their website.

You can then download it at anytime in epub format (adaptive format for ebooks, best suit for reading on mobile devices), pdf and other formats.

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Wow, thanks for head up :D

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Cheers for the heads up, just getting into game dev myself :)

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aww too late for me :(

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Well... there's a free e-book everyday. Today's one seems pretty good, too.

Thanks for the heads up Omicron666.

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Up for Unity 5 Game Optimization today !

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ayy Unity 5
welp time to make a account
bump

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Thanks. Pity I missed the previous ones. Not that I'm ever going to read them, but hey, free stuff.

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Thank you ^^

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Wow nice
Thank you

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bump

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New free ebook added

Kali Linux – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing

Kali Linux is a comprehensive penetration testing platform with advanced tools to identify, detect, and exploit the vulnerabilities uncovered in >the target network environment. This eBook was specially written for IT security professionals looking to test for and then secure network >vulnerabilities. Learn essential lab preparation and testing procedures that reflect real-world attack scenarios, hacker tools and techniques, >best practices for presenting your verified test results, and more!

Click

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bump

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Thanks for bump :-)

I'll keep the OP updated for game likely related ebooks :-)

Procedural Content Generation for C++ Game Development today !

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Dammit
dammit this is the only one I'm interested in so far and I missed it

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Check comments posted above. I can't add it in OP but there is a useful link... ;-) Files are legit but hosting them are probably not. ¯\(ツ) And host has apparently decided to add epub files too :-)

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Me too, I thought I had checked the free offer yesterday but it seems I was wrong :(

Buuuuuuut... ;)

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Thanks for the heads-up. Today's offer (Procedural Content Generation) has a lot to do with one of our gods, RNG.

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Today's addition: Flask By Example (I'm trying not to miss any more books :P)

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There are many auto-claiming scripts around on the web :P, with options to download ebooks in wanted formats, copy to google drive, etc...
Now which one to use o_o ? :-) (which one is the lightest actually ? ^^)
Apparently, Packt have a free weekly ebook in their newsletter too (handled by some scripts as well)

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Mmmm... I should check those scripts :P

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Interesting! Thanks a lot! I'm curious about the scripts that handle the free weekly ebook from their newsletter, I'm wondering how they do that... :D

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haven't heard about that one tho...
only scraping the daily free books for now

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Found this one: https://github.com/niqdev/packtpub-crawler

I haven't had time to try it yet, though

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just checked the script
it ran well.. but still don't know how newsletter claim works

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Thanks for hosting past files, between :-) I was interested in some of them !

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bump

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Today's free ebook: Mastering C# Concurrency

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Today's free ebook: Git Best Practices Guide

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Today's free ebook: Learning PHP 7

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$soldier->getPrincess();

:-)

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Today's free ebook: Learning jQuery - Fourth Edition

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thanks :)

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Today’s free eBook: Mastering Embedded Linux Programming

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Today’s free eBook: PostgreSQL 9 Admin Cookbook

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Bump !

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Royalty Free Music Bundle 4 https://groupees.com/rfmb4
includes https://christophrauch.bandcamp.com/album/everlasting
Useful for streamers, youtubers and game devs

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Wrong thread? :)

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