SpringerLinkDownloader

SpringerLinkDownloader is a small-sized utility that was developed in Java in order to aid people with downloading e-books from the Springer Link platform and view logs with ease.

You are not required to go through the installation process, as this product is portable. As a result, the Windows registry is not going to be updated with any new entries and its removal is not going to leave any traces behind.

You can also place the program files to a USB thumb drive, and thus run SpringerLinkDownloader on the fly, on any PC you are granted access to.

The interface is quite simple and clean, as it consists of a few boxes and buttons, as well as two panes in which to view the created queue and logs. No Help contents are included, yet it becomes pretty clear that all types of users can easily learn how to work with this tool, mostly due to its minimal GUI.

In order to start the downloading process, you are required to input the URL of the book that interests you, choose the output directory with a file browser and add it to the queue with just a click of the button.

It is possible to do this with multiple books and then start downloading all the items in the queue with just a click of the button. The main window displays logs in a dedicated pane, so that you can easily know if an error occurred. No other notable options are included.

To sum up, SpringerLinkDownloader is a pretty decent piece of software for students interesting in downloading multiple e-books from Springer Link with just a few clicks. The computer’s performance is not going to be hindered, all tasks are going to be completed in a pretty fair amount of time and the interface is intuitive.