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Title: 5 Tools to Download any Book from Google and save it as PDF
Post by: Anonymous on April 10, 2009, 03:07:44 AM

http://www.aboutonlinetips.com/google-books-downloader/ (http://www.aboutonlinetips.com/google-books-downloader/)

the method i prefer is the Greasemonkey script

1.
This hack only works with firefox browser. Make sure you install firefox browser.
2.
Now install Greasemonkey Script and then install Google book downloader userscript.
3.
Install Flashgot to firefox browser and restart your firefox browser.
4.
Search any book on books.google.com and you'll notice a download button at the sidebar as shown in screenshot.
5.
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.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748 (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748)

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/37933 (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/37933)

http://flashgot.net/getit (http://flashgot.net/getit)

then convert images to pdf using Imagick

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php (http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php)

it's as easy as

convert image1.jpg image2.jpg image.pdf

Title: Re: 5 Tools to Download any Book from Google and save it as PDF
Post by: sullivan on April 10, 2009, 05:31:09 AM

Rats! It requires the .NET Framework, which doesn't work on Linux, and the Mono equivalent isn't quite enough to run it.

Title: Re: 5 Tools to Download any Book from Google and save it as PDF
Post by: joeblow on April 10, 2009, 05:35:39 AM

Quote from: "sullivan"Rats! It requires the .NET Framework, which doesn't work on Linux, and the Mono equivalent isn't quite enough to run it.

They just released a new version of Mono, upgrade your distribution, LOTS of upgrades.

Title: Re: 5 Tools to Download any Book from Google and save it as PDF
Post by: sullivan on April 10, 2009, 06:25:54 AM

Quote from: "joeblowman"
Quote from: "sullivan"Rats! It requires the .NET Framework, which doesn't work on Linux, and the Mono equivalent isn't quite enough to run it.

They just released a new version of Mono, upgrade your distribution, LOTS of upgrades.

I'm sure I have it already. I have Fedora set to check for updates daily.

Title: Re: 5 Tools to Download any Book from Google and save it as PDF
Post by: CrackSmokeRepublican on April 11, 2009, 01:13:15 PM

Maybe try a Windows VM?

Title: Re: 5 Tools to Download any Book from Google and save it as PDF
Post by: sullivan on April 11, 2009, 05:27:37 PM

Quote from: "CrackSmokeRepublican"Maybe try a Windows VM?

Sounds like the only alternative. I have Windows XP on one computer and Vista on another, but neither are routinely connected to the net.

Title: Re: 5 Tools to Download any Book from Google and save it as PDF
Post by: Anonymous on April 13, 2009, 12:23:31 AM

i use linux and mac no problem with greasemonkey

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