Google Book Search is a massive online collection of e-books. Virtually every kind of book you can imagine can be found in Google books selection. Aside from being the largest collection of books online, Google Books also allow you to search within a book for certain text or phrases, making it very easy to find specific parts of a book. Before you read a book with Google Books, you are able to preview the book for several pages. Some of the e-books in the Google Collection are full versions of the book, while others only have short previews available. Some of the e-books do not even have a preview available. Using Google Books as a source for literature online is common. However, most of the time an individual only needs one or a few topics from a particular e-book. Many people are let down when they realize they cannot copy and paste content from Google Books onto their computer. The truth is, this can be done, and in this tutorial you will learn how to download books from the Google Books library.
1. To complete this process you’re going to need a program called the Google Book Downloader, so the first step would be to download, extract and then run the Google Book Downloader application. Note: In order for the Google Books Downloader to download and install correctly you must have a fully working version of NET 3.5.
2. Now go to the Google Books page and find the e-book you want to download.
3. Then “copy and paste” the book code of the book you want to download.
4. Click the check button to check if GBD finds the required book and returns the available pages.
5. Click the download entire book button. Google Book Downloader will now download the book. Note: The number of pages that are downloaded will depend on the number of pages that are available in Google Books. If the entire e-book is available (such as books that are in the public domain) then Google Book Downloader will download the entire e-book.
6. Once the download has reached completion, you can then save the e-book as a PDF file by clicking on the Save Book button. The download time will depend largely upon the size of the e-book you are downloading, as well as your internet connection speed. Downloads can take anywhere from 2 minutes to 2 hours, maybe more, maybe less.
7. The final step should be quite obvious to anyone reading this tutorial, as all that is left to do is read the e-book. Well, you don’t have to read the e-book, you could just let it sit on your hard drive and download another one for the time being instead. Now that the book is saved to your hard drive, you can use it as you see fit any time, and you could even print it into a paperback copy if you’d like.
Another option is to use Gbookdownloader to download google books as pdf.