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If you are student or just a researcher, you already know most of the good books you can find are on
books.google.com. Google Books's is nice, but not all browsers support it well. Older mobile phones has
big troubles with it, plus it is always nice to have a stored copy of book on your PC for later review or just
to refresh your memory on books previously read.
Thus if you get to task to download Books from Google a quick research reveals few programs claiming
to support downloading Books from Google in PDF;
Google Books Download is said to support Save of Google books in PDF, JPEG or PNG format.
This program works good whether you need to extract only certain book pages, however with complete books it often hangs. Other problem is it is proprietary software, (freeware), so pages book pages it downloads in PDF had a big red color stamp complaining the program is trial.
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There is a cracked version available on Piratebay.se's website. But as Piratebay is filtered from here. To test it I had to google it via piratebay proxy: - with "piratebay google books download"
Google Books Download, standalone app from Piratebay is at current version 3.1.308.
As you can see from screenshot Google Book Download has two modes of work, one is;
Download Manually - This is used for manual download a pages from a complete book and converting
them to PDF.
Download Automatically - Is purposed to download a complete book from books.google.com and
converting it to PDF. Downloading a complete copy of book using this mode is sometimes, hanging, plus
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it is really, really slow. The reason is each of the pages from the Book is first scanned using OCR (Optical
Character Recognition) technology page by page and later after all pages are downloaded in pictures,
they're converted to 1 PDF file.
Because Download Automatically loops at certain pages, this makes Google Books Download almost
useless for people looking to store a full copy of books on Books.Google.com ....
2. Downloading PDFs from books.google.com with Firefox Greasemonkey and Google Book
Downloaderjavascript
If you never before heard of Greasemonkey is a Mozilla Firefox Extension that allows users to install
scripts that make on-the-fly changes to web page content after or before the page is loaded in the browser
(also known as augmented browsing).
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mobile phone articles, religious related texts
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After each book page is succesfully download in page on the left pane you get a download status;
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Articles & tips and tricks on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Windows,
mobile phone articles, religious related texts
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You should keep in mind that the download links of Google Book pages, will have a time expiry, so if
you don't hurry up to save the pictures for later use soon links will become inaccessible and showing as
broken from Google - I'm not sure how much exactly is google's max expiry time set of links but I guess
it should be something 5-10 mins.
The pages of PDF, gets fetched as pictures one by one so it takes 20 secs or so to get all links to pages.
Since Google Books Downloader only provides links to PDF pages it is necessery to either save each of
the pictures manually (quite a lot of effort) or Install and use lets say DownThemAll! FF download
extension. Using DownThemAll does not completely automates picture downloads, as you need to
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Articles & tips and tricks on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Windows,
mobile phone articles, religious related texts
http://www.pc-freak.net/blog
manually select all pictures for downloading, but at least selecting pages saves some time. To download
all book pages with DownThemAll click with right mouse button on the left pane where links to pictures
appears and choose download with DownThemAll!. After that tick on all links pointing to
books.google.com....... to make them have the green tick as shown in below screenshot;
Once you have all PNGs saved on the PC you need to then convert them to unified PDF file. One way to
do this is using ImageMagick's convert command line tool.
To do so install imagemagick for Windows downloading Win binaries from here
There are a bunch of binaries you will need to install named like ImageMagick-*-x86-static.exe
Run cmd.exe, change dir (cd) to folder where the just download book is saved in PNG and issue:
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