Saturday, January 18, 2014

A Simple Google Books Downloader for Book Lovers

If you love to read digital books and want to be able to read full view books from Google books offline, here is a simple utility that can help you do just that.

First download the Google Book Downloader Lite, which is a free open-source utility.

Head down to Google Books and under the My Library view, perform an Advanced Book Search. Make sure you select the Full View Only option in addition to your search parameters.
Advanced Book Search in the Settings menu
Advanced Book Search in the Settings menu

Searching for Google Books in full view
Searching for books available in its entirety i.e. full view

After you have selected the book you want from the search results, click on the About this book link on the left and grab the url from the address bar.


Get the URL for the Google Book
Get the URL for the Google Book


Stick the URL into the Google Book Downloader tool and wait for the extraction process.

Using the Google Books Downloader
Using the Google Books Downloader to save down a book from Google Books

Once completed, you will find each page of the book output in PNG format. Note that the images will be extracted to an arbitrarily named folder (like v0qAh2gHd4YC)




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