diff --git a/spec/parser_spec.cr b/spec/parser_spec.cr
index 3a09138..5bc4942 100644
--- a/spec/parser_spec.cr
+++ b/spec/parser_spec.cr
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ describe Muse::Dl::Parser do
     parser = Muse::Dl::Parser.new(["https://muse.jhu.edu/book/68534"])
     parser.bookmarks.should eq true
     parser.cleanup.should eq true
-    parser.tmp.should eq "/tmp"
     parser.output.should eq "tempfilename.pdf"
     parser.url.should eq "https://muse.jhu.edu/book/68534"
   end
diff --git a/src/errors/download_error.cr b/src/errors/download_error.cr
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1208e96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/errors/download_error.cr
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+module Muse::Dl::Errors
+  class DownloadError < Exception
+  end
+end
diff --git a/src/errors/pdf_operation_error.cr b/src/errors/pdf_operation_error.cr
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6810fd4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/errors/pdf_operation_error.cr
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+module Muse::Dl::Errors
+  class PDFOperationError < Exception
+  end
+end
diff --git a/src/fetch.cr b/src/fetch.cr
index fea5fc9..c713b7c 100644
--- a/src/fetch.cr
+++ b/src/fetch.cr
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ require "myhtml"
 
 module Muse::Dl
   class Fetch
-    USER_AGENT = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36"
+    USER_AGENT            = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36"
+    DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT_SECS = 60
 
     HEADERS = {
       "User-Agent"      => USER_AGENT,
@@ -33,6 +34,11 @@ module Muse::Dl
 
       # TODO: Remove this hardcoding, and make this more generic by generating it within the Book class
       url = "https://muse.jhu.edu/chapter/#{chapter_id}/pdf"
+      uri = URI.parse(url)
+      http_client = HTTP::Client.new(uri)
+      # Raise a IO::TimeoutError after 60 seconds.
+      http_client.read_timeout = DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT_SECS
+
       headers = HEADERS.merge({
         "Referer" => "https://muse.jhu.edu/verify?url=%2Fchapter%2F#{chapter_id}%2Fpdf",
       })
@@ -41,25 +47,37 @@ module Muse::Dl
         headers["Cookie"] = cookie
       end
 
+      request = Crest::Request.new(:get, url, headers: headers, max_redirects: 0, handle_errors: false)
+
+      begin
+        response = request.execute
+      rescue ex : IO::TimeoutError
+        raise Muse::Dl::Errors::DownloadError.new("Error downloading chapter. Download took longer than #{DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT_SECS} seconds.")
+      end
+
       # TODO: Add validation for the downloaded file (should be PDF)
-      Crest.get(url, max_redirects: 0, handle_errors: false, headers: headers) do |response|
-        # puts response.headers["Content-Type"]
-        content_type = response.headers["Content-Type"]
-        if content_type.is_a? String
-          if /html/.match content_type
-            puts response
-            response.body_io.each_line do |line|
-              # https://muse.jhu.edu/chapter/2383438/pdf
-              # https://muse.jhu.edu/book/67393
-              # Errors are Unable to determine page runs / Unable to construct chapter PDF
-              if /Unable to/.match line
-                raise Muse::Dl::Errors::MuseCorruptPDF.new
-              end
+      if !response.success?
+        raise Muse::Dl::Errors::DownloadError.new("Error downloading chapter. HTTP response code: #{response.status}")
+      end
+
+      content_type = response.headers["Content-Type"]
+      if content_type.is_a? String
+        if /html/.match content_type
+          puts response
+          response.body.each_line do |line|
+            # https://muse.jhu.edu/chapter/2383438/pdf
+            # https://muse.jhu.edu/book/67393
+            # Errors are Unable to determine page runs / Unable to construct chapter PDF
+            if /Unable to/.match line
+              raise Muse::Dl::Errors::MuseCorruptPDF.new("Error: MUSE is unable to generate PDF for #{url}")
             end
           end
         end
-        File.open(tmp_pdf_file, "w") do |file|
-          IO.copy(response.body_io, file)
+      end
+      File.open(tmp_pdf_file, "w") do |file|
+        file << response.body
+        if file.size == 0
+          raise Muse::Dl::Errors::DownloadError.new("Error: downloaded chapter file size is zero. Response Content-Length header was #{headers["Content-Length"]}")
         end
       end
 
@@ -89,10 +107,10 @@ module Muse::Dl
             return Muse::Dl::Journal.new response
           end
         rescue ex : Crest::NotFound
-          raise Muse::Dl::Errors::InvalidLink.new
+          raise Muse::Dl::Errors::InvalidLink.new("Error - could not download url: #{url}")
         end
       else
-        raise Muse::Dl::Errors::InvalidLink.new
+        raise Muse::Dl::Errors::InvalidLink.new("Error - url does not match expected pattern: #{url}")
       end
     end
   end
diff --git a/src/muse-dl.cr b/src/muse-dl.cr
index 5ae80e5..c5fa70e 100644
--- a/src/muse-dl.cr
+++ b/src/muse-dl.cr
@@ -65,14 +65,26 @@ module Muse::Dl
     def self.run(args : Array(String))
       parser = Parser.new(args)
 
+      delay_secs = 1
       input_list = parser.input_list
       if input_list
         File.each_line input_list do |url|
-          # TODO: Change this to nil
-          parser.reset_output_file
-          parser.url = url.strip
-          # Ask the download process to not quit the process, and return instead
-          Main.dl parser
+          begin
+            # TODO: Change this to nil
+            parser.reset_output_file
+            parser.url = url.strip
+            # Ask the download process to not quit the process, and return instead
+            Main.dl parser
+            if delay_secs >= 2
+              delay_secs /= 2
+            end
+          rescue ex
+            puts ex.message
+            puts ex.backtrace.join("\n    ")
+            puts "Error. Skipping book: #{url}. Waiting for #{delay_secs} seconds before continuing."
+            sleep(delay_secs)
+            delay_secs *= 2
+          end
         end
       elsif parser.url
         Main.dl parser
diff --git a/src/pdftk.cr b/src/pdftk.cr
index d62c500..6833b5f 100644
--- a/src/pdftk.cr
+++ b/src/pdftk.cr
@@ -28,14 +28,22 @@ module Muse::Dl
     def execute(args : Array(String))
       binary = @binary
       if binary
-        Process.run(binary, args)
+        status = Process.run(binary, args, output: STDOUT, error: STDERR)
+        if !status.success?
+          puts "pdftk command failed: #{binary} #{args.join(" ")}"
+        end
+        return status.success?
       end
     end
 
     def strip_first_page(input_file : String)
       output_pdf = File.tempfile("muse-dl-temp", ".pdf")
-      execute [input_file, "cat", "2-end", "output", output_pdf.path]
-      File.rename output_pdf.path, input_file
+      is_success = execute [input_file, "cat", "2-end", "output", output_pdf.path]
+      if is_success
+        File.rename output_pdf.path, input_file
+      else
+        raise Muse::Dl::Errors::PDFOperationError.new("Error stripping first page of chapter.")
+      end
     end
 
     def add_bookmark(input_file : String, title : String)
@@ -48,11 +56,15 @@ module Muse::Dl
       BookmarkPageNumber: 1
       END
       File.write(bookmark_text_file.path, bookmark_text)
-      execute [input_file, "update_info", bookmark_text_file.path, "output", output_pdf.path]
+      is_success = execute [input_file, "update_info", bookmark_text_file.path, "output", output_pdf.path]
 
       # Cleanup
       bookmark_text_file.delete
-      File.rename output_pdf.path, input_file
+      if is_success
+        File.rename output_pdf.path, input_file
+      else
+        raise Muse::Dl::Errors::PDFOperationError.new("Error adding bookmark metadata to chapter.")
+      end
     end
 
     def add_metadata(input_file : File, output_file : String, book : Book)
@@ -95,7 +107,10 @@ module Muse::Dl
       EOT
 
       File.write(metadata_text_file.path, text)
-      execute [input_file.path, "update_info_utf8", metadata_text_file.path, "output", output_file]
+      is_success = execute [input_file.path, "update_info_utf8", metadata_text_file.path, "output", output_file]
+      if !is_success
+        raise Muse::Dl::Errors::PDFOperationError.new("Error adding metadata to book.")
+      end
       metadata_text_file.delete
     end
 
@@ -111,9 +126,12 @@ module Muse::Dl
 
       chapter_files = chapter_ids.map { |id| Fetch.chapter_file_name(id, @tmp_file_path) }
       args = chapter_files + ["cat", "output", output_file.path]
-      execute args
+      is_success = execute args
 
       # TODO: Validate final file here
+      if !is_success
+        raise Muse::Dl::Errors::PDFOperationError.new("Error stitching chapters together.")
+      end
 
       return output_file
     end