downloading books from google

[The Shutter]

i remember seeing a website that can grab the full book from books.google , i'm searching using google but i think they blocked it from appearing in search results.

[anon]

Google Book Downloader

Maybe that will work.

[The Shutter]

tested it before doesn't work it download only 3 or 4 pages , i think the one i used has the name "evil" in it ...

[ParamouR]

I guess you are talking about the free online service from Bookworm evil. But as of now the link seems to be down

ps: back in days back I used to use GreaseMonkey with Google Book Downloader script found here: Google Book Downloader for Greasemonkey. But here to as of now the last update was more than a year back.

[xamxam]

you can also open page info in firefox and then open media tab where you will see images of book you are reading :) if you want use them for later use then save them :)

[Smiths]

I havn't been downloading from Google books recently, but when I did I used the Firefox addon Google Book Downloader (book.huhiho.com). The thing is, Google has implemented some countermeasures to stop people downloading whole books so easily. From my own experience, examples include:

• Downloading many pages very quickly within short time period flags your IP and you immediately get blocked from accessing any more pages. I guess this is what happened to you.
• You have a limit of accessing say 10-20 pages max at any given time period, until which you need to cool off for a couple of hours or a day or so (or use a different IP) to access a new set of pages again
• Even then Google limits only ~80% of a book to be publicly available, and ~20% hidden at all times (smart on their part).

So what I did was manually download individual pages with different IP's on different days. It was a slow process in retrospect but I was determined to get this book. And when it comes to reading good books not found on definitive sites such as gigapedia.org or library.nu (since closed), there's nothing better than Google books

[anon]

This Is 2013©, so is there a new way to fully steal these works without much hassle? There are some comics I want to get, but are only available as "previews" in Google Books. If there's no easy way, I'll just do what Smiths did.

[The Shutter]

Used a tool with an infinity loop sequence "connect > disconnect > grab" , but after 4-5 pages , you'll have to restart your computer ... so it is useless

[koel]

there was one but it will download what you could see in browser which is a preview .(pages missing )
Go on libgen.