Google Books Search provides an interesting way to search for books and magazines that have been scanned by Google. The books and magazines can be viewed online but there is no way to make the contents available offline easily. It is possible to save the whole page to the local computer but that would mean that it is available in html format with an extra folder for additional elements which is not really handy.
A better alternative would be the software program Google Books Downloader which can be used to download parts or entire books in pdf format. The process requires some manual work on part of the user. Books and magazines are identified by an unique ID which is displayed in the address bar. That unique ID has to be copied and pasted into the software. Everything else is done automatically by the software. The program will scan all pages of the selected book or magazine and display all pages in its interface.
Each page can be selected for download separately which is useful if only selected parts of the book or magazine should be downloaded. The other option available is to download the full book or magazine right away to the local computer.
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Only the scanned magazine or book pages are downloaded and included in the pdf document. The size of the pdf document depends on the number of pages of the book or magazine. Google Books Downloader provides an excellent way of downloading books and magazines from Google easily.
Update: The program appears to be no longer available. You can check out some of the alternatives that are still working. First the userscript Google Book Downloader and then How To Download Google Books Ebooks.
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could it be you forgot the link? :)
http://www.codeplex.com/GoogleBookDownloader
also, this requires the latest .NET framework, and i got a 90-95% success rate, but i must say it’s very handy.
and also, users should be aware that they are mostly downloading copyrighted material :-)
nice post,,thnx mate
Searched for a book and put the code in and clicked Check, it went in to a loop of downloading what seems to me, from the Weblogs window, to be the front cover of the book. I waited and waited and then after 10 minutes or so clicked Stop, nothing seems to have happened, nothing in the Pages window.
RG this happened to me when I tried the app for the first time. I missed one letter of the ID which resulted in the endless loop that you described. Can you paste the url of the book?
Here is the URL I tried Martin http://books.google.com/books?id=kDsnz2ZTD0wC&q=ccna&dq=ccna&pgis=1 Is the whole (or partial) book even ‘available’ there?
RG the whole book is not available at Google Books. See this page for additional information: http://books.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=43729&topic=9259&hl=en
The books should be on a page like this: http://books.google.com/books?id=GeMDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_hpmagazines
Thanx Martin. Indeed my guess was that such a book wouldn’t be available anyway.
What about this book?
http://books.google.com/books?id=E9PDg8-TFlUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Isbell%22+%22Huari+administrative+structure:+prehistoric+monumental+…%22+&lr=&hl=sl&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA160,M1
ID: E9PDg8-TFlUC (right?)
This ID resulted in the endless loop … Can you please help me?
yep, the loop business shows up with RpH99sZisSQC , too…
Think it’s a bug
Thanks! I’ve been looking for something like this for ages…
I went to medical geetics books
muy bueno
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