diff --git a/src/api/src/create_book/create_book.py b/src/api/src/create_book/create_book.py
index d94a375..700a47d 100644
--- a/src/api/src/create_book/create_book.py
+++ b/src/api/src/create_book/create_book.py
@@ -3,42 +3,18 @@ from typing import Optional, Tuple
 from io import BytesIO
 import backoff
 from pydantic import TypeAdapter
-from .config import Config, CacheTypes
 from .logs import logger
 from eliot import start_action
-from dotenv import load_dotenv
 from aiohttp import ClientResponseError
 from aiohttp_client_cache.session import CachedSession
-from aiohttp_client_cache import FileBackend, RedisBackend
 from .models import Story
 from .exceptions import PartNotFoundError, StoryNotFoundError
+from .vars import headers, cache
 
-load_dotenv(override=True)
-
-config = Config()
 story_ta = TypeAdapter(Story)
 
 # --- #
 
-headers = {
-    "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
-}
-
-if config.USE_CACHE:
-    match config.CACHE_TYPE:
-        case CacheTypes.file:
-            cache = FileBackend(use_temp=True, expire_after=43200)  # 12 hours
-        case CacheTypes.redis:
-            cache = RedisBackend(
-                cache_name="wpd-aiohttp-cache",
-                address=config.REDIS_CONNECTION_URL,
-                expire_after=43200,  # 12 hours
-            )
-else:
-    cache = None
-
-logger.info(f"Using {cache=}")
-
 
 async def fetch_cookies(username: str, password: str) -> dict:
     # source: https://github.com/TheOnlyWayUp/WP-DM-Export/blob/dd4c7c51cb43f2108e0f63fc10a66cd24a740e4e/src/API/src/main.py#L25-L58
@@ -148,18 +124,3 @@ async def fetch_story_content_zip(
                 bytes_stream = BytesIO(await response.read())
 
         return bytes_stream
-
-
-@backoff.on_exception(backoff.expo, ClientResponseError, max_time=15)
-async def fetch_image(url: str, should_cache: bool = False) -> bytes:
-    """Fetch image bytes."""
-    with start_action(action_type="api_fetch_image", url=url):
-        async with CachedSession(
-            headers=headers, cache=cache if should_cache else None
-        ) as session:  # Don't cache images.
-            async with session.get(url) as response:
-                response.raise_for_status()
-
-                body = await response.read()
-
-        return body
diff --git a/src/api/src/create_book/parser.py b/src/api/src/create_book/parser.py
index 9a14017..08533f4 100644
--- a/src/api/src/create_book/parser.py
+++ b/src/api/src/create_book/parser.py
@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
+from typing import List, Tuple
+from aiohttp import ClientSession
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, Tag
+from itertools import batched, chain
+
+import asyncio
+from .vars import headers
+from eliot import start_action
 
 
 def clean_tree(title: str, id: int, body: str) -> BeautifulSoup:
@@ -48,3 +55,27 @@ def clean_tree(title: str, id: int, body: str) -> BeautifulSoup:
                 insert_at.append(br_tag)
 
     return new_soup
+
+
+async def fetch_image(url: str) -> bytes | None:
+    """Fetch image bytes."""
+    with start_action(action_type="api_fetch_image", url=url):
+        async with ClientSession(headers=headers) as session:  # Don't cache images.
+            async with session.get(url) as response:
+                if not response.ok:
+                    return None
+
+                body = await response.read()
+
+        return body
+
+
+async def download_tree_images(tree: BeautifulSoup) -> Tuple[bytes]:
+    image_urls = [img["src"] for img in tree.find_all("img")]
+    downloaded_images: List[bytes] = list(
+        chain(
+            await asyncio.gather(*[fetch_image(url) for url in chunk])
+            for chunk in batched(image_urls, 3)
+        )
+    )
+    return downloaded_images
diff --git a/src/api/src/create_book/vars.py b/src/api/src/create_book/vars.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8cedbe6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/api/src/create_book/vars.py
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+from .config import Config, CacheTypes
+from aiohttp_client_cache.session import CachedSession
+from aiohttp_client_cache import FileBackend, RedisBackend
+from dotenv import load_dotenv
+from .logs import logger
+
+headers = {
+    "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
+}
+
+load_dotenv(override=True)
+
+config = Config()
+
+if config.USE_CACHE:
+    match config.CACHE_TYPE:
+        case CacheTypes.file:
+            cache = FileBackend(use_temp=True, expire_after=43200)  # 12 hours
+        case CacheTypes.redis:
+            cache = RedisBackend(
+                cache_name="wpd-aiohttp-cache",
+                address=config.REDIS_CONNECTION_URL,
+                expire_after=43200,  # 12 hours
+            )
+else:
+    cache = None
+
+logger.info(f"Using {cache=}")