How to download the free Swift Programming Language book (Swift 5 Edition) from the Apple Books Store

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I'm wondering how to download The Swift Programming Language Book (Swift 5 Edition) from the Apple Books Store?

Easy using iPad or iPhone, but I'd really like to use the download on an alternate machine (Program on Mac, reference on nearby big screen using Windows or Linux…). The link shows 4.3 MB of data, it must be a file somewhere, somehow.

Anyone know how do I download this book? (and/or other free book resources as well?)

For reference, here's another valuable resource from Apple:

Best Answer

Assuming you are using iCloud Library for Apple Books, the location for the raw .epub files (can be accessed from the terminal.app) is:

/Users/<YourUserName>/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~com~apple~iBooks/Documents

As for opening books downloaded from Apple Book Store in Windows/Linux, the books are DRM protected (even the free ones).

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