Google Inc. has announced the launch of its new service: Google Books. Currently, you can purchase books (U.S. only) or download more than 3 million free books from anywhere in the world using this service.
Google Book Downloader
Google offers a vast repository of ebooks via Google Books. There's the Google Books search engine and Google Play Books store. Both services let you save copies of books to read them offline, making downloading books pretty easy. All you need to do is follow these steps.
Unless you know which out-of-print title you want, we'd recommend using the Google Books Advanced Search feature. It lets you enter several specific parameters, one of which is the category of the book. Obviously, you need to choose Full View.
When you click on the link, you'll receive an additional prompt to confirm your decision. Select Read, and the book will become available in the My Books section of the Google Play Store. To download it, click on the three dots on the listing and select Download PDF or Download EPUB (depending on availability).
Google Play Books is Google's ebook store, and it's the second-largest ebook shop on the web behind Amazon. It offers more than six million titles for purchase, and you can also use the platform to buy audiobooks and rent textbooks.
If you have free ebooks in your library (either because you saved them from Google Books using the previous method or took advantage of a free ebook offer on the store), you can download a PDF or EPUB version of the file.
So, there you have it; that is how to download books from Google for free. The methods described in this article will help you ensure you always have plenty of reading material to hand, even if you're going to be offline for an extended time.
Of course, there are plenty of other ways to download free books, so you'll always have something new to read. Project Gutenberg is one of the most well-known repos of free books. Check it out if you have time.
Since the Google employs the DRM scheme to encrypt their books, most of the purchased Google books are protected by Adobe Adept DRM. To break up the DRM restriction, you can use Epubor Ultimate to remove DRM from the Google Play books and convert Google books to epub/mobi/azw3 to read on the popular eReaders.
For full view books, you are able to view the full content of this kind of book and download them to your local device for free. You can follow below steps to download full view books from Google books.
For snippet view books, Google does not have the copyright to display all the pages but only several lines in context. For no preview books, you can only see basic information about this kind of books. For these books, we are not able to download them as PDF or any other format.
If you really want to download preview, snippet or no preview books, you can check whether these books have ebook edition on sale. Usually, the Google will show you some vendors at the left column which has this book in stock as below picture.
Please remember that the most popular eBook vendors are not use PDF as their eBooks format, but AZW for Kindle books and Epub for Kobo Books. What's more, they even employ DRM scheme to encrypt the books. Don't worry. If you have downloaded Epubor Ultimate already, you can use it decrypt nearly 99% ebooks purchased from kindle, kobo, Google Play and nook stores.
Google has announced the launch of its new service, Google Books. Currently, you can purchase books (U.S. only) or download more than three million free books from anywhere in the world using this service. As announced by Google, the aim of this project is to provide users with their own bookshelf on hand, no matter where they are. Purchased or downloaded books can be read using a desktop browser, as well as through mobile devices based on the Android operating system or iOS. Additionally, the books can be read on any e-reader with Adobe Digital Editions software. As opposed to the Picasa service which provides an access to photos, the Google Books service does not allow users to download free electronic editions without digital copy protection and use them on other devices. Google Books Downloader is a little software that allows you to save these books in PDF or JPEG format .
As its name implies, Google Books Downloader converts Google Books into PDFs or images available for offline viewing. This very basic software comes with just a handful of options and requires the URL of the book you'd like to download; there is no in-app Google Book store.
Features handy options: Despite its basic nature, the app does come with a handful of useful options, namely image resolution, output format, and output directory. The software can generate PDF books as well as JPEG/PNG images with a resolution of up to 1280 pixels.
Shaky legal ground: Unlike most of its other services, Google ships its books with DRM, meaning that you have to use software approved by Google in order to read its books. This app circumvents this limitation and may be considered unlawful by some.
If you enjoy Google Books but don't like the idea of reading a book in your Web browser, you may appreciate the convenience of the Google Books Downloader. This freeware is extremely easy to use and will save your book for offline reading in minutes.
Google's free books are made available to read through careful consideration of and respect for copyright law globally: they are public-domain works, made free on request of the copyright owner, or copyright-free, e.g. US government documents.
Google Books is a pretty amazing virtual library filled with who knows how many books, magazines, periodicals, and whatever else you might expect to find in a brick and mortar library. Some of the books can be downloaded and saved as a PDF with just a click, others are restricted, but thats where Google Book Downloader comes in. Simply give the program a Google Book URL or Book ID, and Google Book Downloader will generate a PDF of that book (or at least the portion that is accessible via the web). This is so useful for anyone who wants a virtual copy of a book stored locally on their Mac (or iPod Touch, or iPhone, or even the iPad!). This is about as easy as it gets.
When I said the book was downloaded with success, I wasn't being totally honest. For some reason, getxbook missed a few pages that were available in the preview. To get these, I followed these instructions.
Note that the book is downloaded to a sub-directory of the current directory named with the book ID. It is downloaded as a set of .png and/or .jpg files, one per page. These can be converted to .pdf format as follows (after converting the .jpg files to .png files one by one):
Google Book Search has thousands of books, magazines, and documents available for free for the public. You can read them online, but what if you want to read them offline? Google should have a build-in feature to download books since most people are not always connected to the internet. What if I want to read a book while traveling and there is no internet connectivity? Google Book Downloader (link seems to be down, grab it directly here) a handy tool which you can use to download books directly from Google and save them directly in PDF format. 2ff7e9595c
Comments