Why don't they explain <i>why</i> they have these restrictions? Their books are all in the public domain so what difference could it possibly make who downloads them?<p>The 24 hour download limit could possibly be defensible if they explained it -- for example they might encourage you to cache a copy of a book you'd like rather than refetch it every time. But they don't bother to explain.<p>I agree with coding4all: avoid this crap by simply going to the Internet Archive.
It's interesting to see one of my favorite sites doing this. There's always <a href="https://openlibrary.org/" rel="nofollow">https://openlibrary.org/</a> which is ran by <a href="https://archive.org/" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/</a> . I imagine Open Library has many of the same books.
Interestingly enough they have a link to Tor hidden service in their ToS: <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Terms_of_Use" rel="nofollow">http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Terms_of_Use</a><p>> If you think that TOR gives you the anonymity you want, go here for a hidden mirror of our text files: <a href="http://libraryhvopfiqnp.onion/gutenberg/" rel="nofollow">http://libraryhvopfiqnp.onion/gutenberg/</a>