or: wget -r -np -nd -A.mobi -erobots=off http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/ebooks/ r = recursive np = don't follow up to parent nd = don't recreate d

or: wget -r -np -nd -A.mobi -erobots=off http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/ebooks/ r = recursive np = don't follow up to parent nd = don't recreate directories locally A = file extensions to dl erobots = ignore robots, for some reason this site blocks wget also, -i filename.txt will grab a list of urls for a file and download them, so no need for 'wget <url>'. adding -F will treat that local file as HTML and grab all the links out of it for download.