Google Books is a universal library where people have access to millions N millions of ebooks,magazines & other documents.This site contains a lot of copyright materials which are free for online viewing,but doesn’t add the facility to download them.A lot of tools are available commercially to facilitate us to download them to our pc.We can download books without copyright freely without any add-ons,but downloading Copyright stuffs is a lot tougher.But there’s always a silver lining to a black cloud.Thanks to the efforts put by a lot of people,there are a few softwares available which can hack into google server and download it for us.All we need to do is save the final document as Pdf.
1)Google Book Downloader: This is the most widely used tool to download ebooks from Google books.This lets you save the file as pdf .This requires Microsoft .net Framework 3.5(Get it here) to be installed.For more details on how to use this software.
*Install Google books downloader from here.
*Now copy n paste the Url of the book you want to download.
*Click on the search button & the software will check the pages available for download.
*Now click on Download entire book to grab the entire book @ a go.
*Press save entire book as button.It will be saved as a Pdf.
NOTE:Never close or teminate Google Book Downloader if the application is downloading any books.If you do,then the file download will terminate and you need to repeat the process all over again.More detailed guide can be found here.
2)Greasemonkey Script: This is the most famous method & easiest way to download get the books.This hack works only for Firefox.First N foremost make sure you have firefox.You can get it from here.
*Install Greasemonkey from here.Now Restart Firefox after installing it.
*Run the Google Book Downloader script from here.Click on Install the script.
*Install Flashgot from here.Restart Firefox and then head over to Google books & search for your book.Once you find it,click on its thumbnail preview to go to the book page.Now your screen will observe a “Download this book” button like this:
*Now click on the Download this book button and select the pages you wish to grab and then right click & select Flashgot from the menu.It will be automatically saved to your download folder.
3)Laneware.net: This tool was developed for Internet Explorer.This has the most simplest of all the tools available,but i have been unable to download anything from them till now.Head over to the site .To grab the links paste the url into the text box & click on Process button as shown:
You can refer the documentation for more troubleshooting options.Maybe you’ll have more luck in using it.
4)Leech Video:Go to the Site.Copy N paste the Web address of your url & click on the Grab button.It will start retrieving the pages in image format one by one.To save the links right click on them and manually save them one by one.To enable batch downloading use ORbit downloader.Get it from here.
5)Click Book: This is a premium tool available for $49.95 implementable on 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista.This tool can not only download the books but also provides interface to print them. as well.You can find more info on them here.
6)Downloading without any software:
*Log in with admin settings and launch Internet Explorer(No Firefox).
*Go to “C:\Documents and Settings\%admin_name%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\”of your machine and delete all the contents.
*Browse the pages of the book you wish to download.
*Open the “Temporary Internet files” folder and copy all the png format images.These are nothing but optical scanned copies of the book.
*Print them or arrange the files in order to view them sequentially.
Google Book Downloader:The Complete Instruction Guide
July 10, 2010
Google Books is literally a huge library of ebooks,magazines & documents which are available freely for the public.If you are unable to find a particular ebook or magazine,you should probably take a look @ the Google Books & you might actually find what you are looking for.For instance,during my Gmat preparation,I wasnt able to access pages in an ebook which belonged to Kaplan(Kaplan Intensive Prep).I desperately needed to access those pages & I got a tip-off from someone that Google Books have certain books on restricted materials or shall i say copyright stuffs.But you just cant download it from there easily.You need to download Google Book Downloader,a freeware program developed by Codeplex.This is a very handy tool using which you can connect to the google server & directly download the file N save them as PDF.Now lets see how to make it work:
1)This software requires Microsoft .net Framework 3.5 SP1(Download from here)
2)Install the Google Book Downloader.
3)First search for your book in the Google Books .
4)Now copy the web address of your book 
check the arrow)
You can see that you have access to so many pags here.There is really no page not downloaded problem here.Paste this link in the google book downloader & by going to File>>Add Book.Then click on Search.Now if you want to specify any server you can do so.But i prefer U.S server.Now it will take over the download & all you need to do is click on the Queue button.Now this might take sometime,but PLZ DON’T CLOSE THE GOOGLE BOOK DOWNLOADER UNTILL YOU HAVE DOWNLOADED THE FILE COMPLETELY.IF YOU DO,THE FILE WILL NOT BE SAVED & IT WILL ALL BE A WASTE.So ill guess that will be all for now.Incase you run into some issues or errors,then feel free to comment.I shall respond to them with promptness.Happy Downloading.
