diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ You’ll also need to ensure the following:
 
     The website pulls all ebook information from what is contained in `/standardebooks.org/www/ebooks/`. It does not inspect `/standardebooks.org/ebooks/`. Therefore it is possible for one or the other to hold different catalogs if they become out of sync.
 
+    To automatically populate your server with ebooks from https://github.com/standardebooks/, you can use sync-ebooks and deploy-ebook-to-www in the [scripts](scripts) directory. If you don't want to clone all ebooks, don't use sync-ebooks, and instead clone the books you want into `/standardebooks.org/ebooks` with `git clone --bare`. To clone a list of books, you can use `while IFS= read -r line; do git clone --bare "${line}"; done < urllist.txt`
+
 # Testing
 
 This repository includes [PHPStan](https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan) to statically analyze the codebase and [Safe PHP](https://github.com/thecodingmachine/safe) to replace old functions that don't throw exceptions.
diff --git a/scripts/README.md b/scripts/README.md
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+++ b/scripts/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# sync-ebooks
+
+To use, call this script with the directory where your ebooks go as its last argument. For example `sync-ebooks /standardebooks.org/ebooks` or if you want to clone them into this repository `sync-ebooks ebooks`. If you want progress output, use -v, and if you want detailed git progress output use -vv.
+
+# deploy-ebook-to-www
+
+To use, call this script with the directories of the books you want to deploy as its arguments. For example, to deploy all ebooks after using sync-ebooks, run `deploy-ebook-to-www /standardebooks.org/ebooks/*`. To deploy only The Time Machine by H.G Wells, you would run `deploy-ebook-to-www /standardebooks.org/ebooks/h-g-wells_the-time-machine`. Note that deploy-ebook-to-www assumes that your webroot is in /standardebooks.org/. To output progress information, use -v or --verbose.
diff --git a/scripts/sync-ebooks b/scripts/sync-ebooks
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..b66fb0d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/sync-ebooks
@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+set -u
+set -o pipefail
+
+usage(){
+	fmt <<EOF
+DESCRIPTION
+	Syncs books from standardebooks.org GitHub org to specified folder.
+
+USAGE
+	${0##*/} [-h] [-v|-vv] [-u] DIRECTORY
+
+	-h displays this message
+	-v displays general progress updates
+	-vv displays progress updates and verbose git output
+
+	DIRECTORY should be where the repositories should go.
+
+EXAMPLE
+	${0##*/} /standardebooks.org/ebooks
+EOF
+	exit
+}
+
+# Terminate on CTRL-C
+trap ctrl_c INT
+ctrl_c() {
+	printf "** Trapped CTRL-C\n"
+	exit
+}
+
+verbosity=0
+update_only="false"
+while getopts ":hvu" option; do
+	case "${option}" in
+		h) usage ;;
+		v) verbosity=$((verbosity + 1)) ;;
+		u) update_only="true" ;;
+		?) usage ;;
+	esac
+done
+shift "$((OPTIND -1))"
+
+if [ -z "$*" ]; then
+	usage
+fi
+
+if ! [ -d "$*" ]; then
+	>&2 printf "%s does not exist.\n" "$*"
+	exit
+fi
+
+if ! cd "$*"; then
+	>&2 printf "Couldn't cd into %s.\n" "$*"
+	exit
+fi
+
+if [ "${verbosity}" -gt 0 ]; then
+	printf "** Updating local repositories. **\n"
+fi
+
+for item in ./*; do
+	[ -e "${item}" ] || break
+	if [ "${verbosity}" -gt 0 ]; then
+		printf "Updating %s\n" "${item}"
+	fi
+
+	if [ "${verbosity}" -gt 1 ]; then
+		git -C "${item}" fetch -v
+	else
+		git -C "${item}" fetch -q
+	fi
+done
+
+if [ "${update_only}" = "true" ]; then
+	exit
+fi
+
+if [ "${verbosity}" -gt 0 ]; then
+	printf "** Cloning remote repositories. **\n"
+	printf "Fetching repository urls"
+fi
+
+page=1
+urls=""
+pageurls="placeholder"
+while [ -n "${pageurls}" ]; do
+	pageurls=$(curl -s "https://api.github.com/orgs/standardebooks/repos?per_page=100&page=${page}" \
+		| awk 'BEGIN { FS="\""; RS="," }; { if ($2 == "clone_url") {print $4} }')
+	urls=$(printf "%s\n%s" "${urls}" "${pageurls}")
+	page=$((page + 1))
+
+	if [ "${verbosity}" -gt 0 ]; then
+		printf "."
+	fi
+done
+
+if [ "${verbosity}" -gt 0 ]; then
+	printf "\n"
+fi
+
+urls=$(printf "%s\n" "${urls}" | grep -v -e "/tools.git\$" -e "/web.git\$" -e "/manual.git\$" | awk 'NF')
+
+printf "%s\n" "${urls}" | while IFS= read -r repourl; do
+	[ -n "${repourl}" ] || continue
+	[ -d "${repourl##*/}" ] && continue
+
+	if [ "${verbosity}" -gt 0 ]; then
+		printf "Cloning %s\n" "${repourl}"
+	fi
+
+	if [ "${verbosity}" -gt 1 ]; then
+		git clone -v --bare "${repourl}"
+	else
+		git clone -q --bare "${repourl}"
+	fi
+
+	if ! [ -d "${repourl##*/}" ]; then
+		>&2 printf "%s wasn't cloned." "${repourl}"
+	fi
+done