Google Books Downloader [Download Online Books to PDF]
If you didn’t know, you can browse tons of books online at Google Books. According to Wikipedia, the number of scanned books was over 15 million as of 2010. You are able to read some of the ebooks online for free at Google Books if the book is out of copyright or the publisher has given Google permission. To know which books are available to read online, just look for “Full View” instead of “Snippet View” or “No Preview Available”. You may also noticed that some of the ebooks can be downloaded in PDF or EPUB format from the settings drop down menu if it is in the public domain.
Some of the ebooks especially Magazines cannot be downloaded. You are able to view every pages without restriction but there are no Download EPUB or Download PDF option at the settings drop down menu. If you really need to read it offline or show it someone without an internet connection, probably your best bet would be taking screenshot of all the pages which is very time consuming and tedious. Alternatively, you can automate the process by using a free software called Google Books Downloader.
At the first step of installation, make sure you select Custom installation and then uncheck Install Arccosine as it doesn’t have anything to do with Google Books Downloader. If you’ve accidentally installed Arccosine, not to worry because it only changes the default Internet Explorer start page. All you need to do is go to Internet Options and reset the default home page.
All you need to do is enter the Google Book URL, select the output format either in PDF or image (JPEG or PNG) format, select the resolution that would fit nicely on your screen and set the output folder which by default is your desktop. Then click the Start button and wait for a couple of minutes. If you’ve selected PDF as output image, it will save the book as PDF format at the output folder and as for image format, it will be saved into a new folder.
Do note that Google Books Downloader can only download ebooks that you can view. It cannot bypass and download the full ebook that are not available for preview or snippet preview. Google Books Downloader is free and works on Windows and Mac.
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Tried it as it seemed like a good program, but i found it to be useless.
I tried a few books, but when i try to read the pdf it seems like the program have skipped 3-4 pages every 2-3 pages.
What i mean is that i can read 2-3 pages, the 3-4 pages are skipped, then another 2-3 pages are readable, then it has skipped 3-4 pages again, and it continues through the whole book.
I’m trying to search on google for another tool just like this to see if it works better.
I would recommend NOT installing this; after installing, GoogleBooksDownloader reset my browser bookmarks to a site in the Russian Federation, arccosine. com.
I’d suggest you to read the whole article next time.
“At the first step of installation, make sure you select Custom installation and then uncheck Install Arccosine as it doesn’t have anything to do with Google Books Downloader. If you’ve accidentally installed Arccosine, not to worry because it only changes the default Internet Explorer start page. All you need to do is go to Internet Options and reset the default home page.”
Understood, Raymond… and you’re right that he didn’t carefully read. But an argument could be made that you really shouldn’t be referring us to software that does malwarish things like ijacking the browser. Yes, it’s good that you warn people about it, and how to avoid it: kudos to you for that. However, I think you should conform to a higher standard of never referring us to anything which does anything in an underhanded way, just generally.
The problem with software and its makers is little different from in life: if you knew someone who did an underhanded thing, you would not trust him/her regarding other things. His/her underhanded act would suggest to you something bad about his/her integrity (or, more precisely, his/her lack, of it); and so you’d always not-quite-trust him/her regarding a whole range of things in life. Or at least that’s how most people would be.
It’s exactly the same with software makers. Any of them who do something inherently bad — like browser hijacking, against which many anti-malware/anti-spyware/anti-adware packages protect — are clearly integrity-challenged; and so it’s just wrong, then, to recommend their products.
That’s just an opinion, mind you; just a constructive criticism. I remain a huge fan of you and your site…
…but I’m just sayin’. Just tryin’ to help.
KEEP-UP THE GOOD WORK!
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Gregg L. DesElms
Napa, California USA
gregg at greggdeselms dot com
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nice info…is this only to dowload Free books or any books available on google books site ?
let me know this..