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How to Download Google books as pdf file

Written on October 9, 2009 | Posted in How To |

download google books How to Download Google books as pdf file Google books is really a unique & rich source of reading favourite books. It has a vast collection of books and all are arranged in different categories. Google book accurate saying Google Book Search is a service that searches the full text of books that Google scans, converts to text using OCR (optical character recognition) and stores in its digital database. The Google Book Search database continues to grow day by day.

How many books are there in Google’s database?
On October 28, 2008, Google stated that they had 7 million books searchable through Google Book Search, including those scanned by their 20,000 publisher partners.Of the 7 million books, 1 million are “full preview” based on agreements with publishers. 1 million are in the public domain.

Although you can read most of the books which are available, you cannot download all of them. Google Book search lets you to download non copy write and public domain books and documents in PDF format. But you can’t download copy write Books from Google Book Search. Only few books are available with full preview based on agreements with publishers.Here are some effective tools which let you download any Google book and save it as PDF file or print it.

1. Google book downloader

It’s a Open source project conducted by CodePlex. Google Book Downloader is small desktop utility which allows you to save book as PDF from Google to your PC.

You can download the software and know more details about Google book downloader from visiting their site- http://www.codeplex.com/GoogleBookDownloader

google book downloader How to Download Google books as pdf file

2. Leechvideo

It’s not a desktop utility like Google book downloader. Leechvideo is web based tool which allow you to download google books.

Visit leechvideo and input URL of the book you searched from Google.
Press the ‘Grab’ button. The page retrieval process in the form of image files will start as soon as you press the ‘Grab’ button.
More details are available on the site- http://book.leechvideo.com/

3. Greasemonkey script

This is the most powerful and stable way to download Google Book. You can easily download any book from books.google.com using Greasemonkey script. Just follow the simple steps below.

This hack only works with firefox browser. Make sure you install firefox browser.

First, install Greasemonkey Script and then install Google book downloader userscript.
Now, Install Flashgot to firefox browser and restart your firefox browser.
Search any book on books.google.com and you’ll notice a download button as shown in screenshot.

google books downloader userscript How to Download Google books as pdf file

Click the download button to download the images of each. Select the pages you wish to download and then right click and select FlashGot Selection to download the selected pages