Sometimes, you can find whole books that you can add to your own library and read on your phone or tablet. Only books with specific permissions can be downloaded for free, which usually means the books are old enough that they belong in the. Some modern books are offered as an introduction to a series, too. Books with intact copyrights are available only for preview or, in some cases, for purchase in the Google Play Store. The amount of a book you can preview varies from just a citation to the entire book, depending on the agreement Google has with the publisher. You can go directly to Google Books and find books to download for free. You'll need an author, genre, title, or some other descriptive term to enter into the search engine. The process is intuitive: • Go to (not Google Play). • Search for a descriptive term, such as 'Chaucer' or 'Wuthering Heights.' • After Google returns the search results, click on Tools in the menu above the search results. Some of the aren't going to be classic or even public domain books; some are just books someone wrote and wants to distribute for, whether forever or for only a few hours. Read the description that appears with each of the books in the search results list for more details. You can adjust the Any time option in the Tools menu to find only older works to exclude modern commentaries. If you're not interested in reading a full book and just want to find out some information, you can use the Tools menu to restrict your search to books with an available preview by selecting Preview available in the Any time drop-down menu. That filter also shows free ebooks because they always include full previews. ![]() A small utility which allows you to save books from Google to your local file-system. ![]() ![]() Step Open your computer's Web browser and navigate to the Google Books website. Click the 'Sign In' button in the upper right-hand corner of the page, fill in your Google Books account email address and password and click the 'Sign In' button. Step Click the 'My Library' link to view the Google Books in your library. Click on the Google Book you wish to convert into PDF format to view an overview of that book. Step Click the 'Read on your device' option beneath the 'Read now' button. On the 'Read on your device' page, scroll down to the 'eReaders and other devices' section and click the 'Download PDF' button. Step Type the characters that appear in the CAPTCHA box in the space provided and click the submit button. The PDF file for your Google Book will now be downloaded and saved to the default download directory on the computer.
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