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Update: It looks like the Maxwell Institute changed their website and the script no longer works. It's fixable, but I don't know when I'll get around to it.

GetBook is a Python script to create epub ebooks or .book files and folders (see http://bencrowder.net/blog/2010/06/md2epub/) from the online texts made available by the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University (http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/).

Requirements:

• Python (2.5 or newer, I think)
• µTidylib (http://utidylib.berlios.de/)

Instructions: The book is specified by using the bookid from the book's url, e.g. for Temple and the Cosmos (http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=103), the bookid is 103. The script will ask the user for the bookid, or it can be passed as an argument.

Legal stuff: GetBook.py is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/). Files created using GetBook.py should not be sold, made available, or otherwise distributed without express consent of the Maxwell institute.