Monday, August 09, 2010
Anu
Google books is really a unique & rich source of reading favouritebooks. It has a vast collection of books and all are arranged in differentcategories.
Google book accurate saying Google Book Searchis a service that searches the full text of books that Google scans, convertsto text using OCR (optical character recognition) and stores in its digitaldatabase. The Google Book Search database continues to grow day by day.
How many books are there in Google’sdatabase?
On October 28, 2008, Google stated that they had 7 million books searchablethrough Google Book Search, including those scanned by their 20,000publisher partners.Of the 7 million books, 1 million are “full preview” basedon agreements with publishers. 1 million are in the public domain.
On October 28, 2008, Google stated that they had 7 million books searchablethrough Google Book Search, including those scanned by their 20,000publisher partners.Of the 7 million books, 1 million are “full preview” basedon agreements with publishers. 1 million are in the public domain.
Although you can read most of thebooks which are available, you cannot download all of them. Google Book searchlets you to download non copy write and public domain books and documents inPDF format. But you can’t download copy write Books from Google Book Search.Only few books are available with full preview based on agreements withpublishers.Here are some effective tools which let you download any Google bookand save it as PDF file or print it.
1. Google book downloader
It’s a Open source project conductedby CodePlex. Google Book Downloader is small desktop utility whichallows you to save book as PDF from Google to your PC.
You can download the software andknow more details about Google book downloader from visiting their site- http://www.codeplex.com/GoogleBookDownloader
OR
2. Leechvideo
It’s not a desktop utility like Googlebook downloader. Leechvideo is web based tool which allow you to downloadgoogle 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 stableway to download Google Book. You can easily download any book frombooks.google.com using Greasemonkey script. Just follow the simple steps below.
This hack only works with firefoxbrowser. 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.
- 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
Keep READING.... :)
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