Everyone should thank Google because they have invested millions of dollars to scan and collect so many books (over 3 million titles) so that users around the world can use its Google Books service. However, it is real pain that we need to sit in front of our computer to read the Google books via web browser. Is there any method to download Google books to PDF and transfer the PDFs to eReaders? Today, I will show you how to download Google book to pdf so that you can read it on any devices as you want.

If a book does not have any of these, i.e. It can't be viewed on Google Books, then the utility can't (and practically, no one can) download the book. Step 1: After running the utility, you'll be asked whether to download from URL or, in case you have previously downloaded it, from backup. At this point, type 'Yes'.

Part 1. Google Play Books Download to PDF (Purchased Google Books)

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• May 17, 2018 The stream URL provides access to books in a format designed for online reading. The download URLs allows a book or portion of a book to be downloaded. Images of the individual pages will be accessible at the the following URLs (not yet implemented).

Google, one of the famous eBook vendors, claims itself as the “largest eBooks collection in the world”. In Google Play store, you can always purchase the book you want. But do you know how to download Google Play books to your computer? Follow the below steps to download Google Play books to PDF.

Step 1 Log in your Google Play account and go to My Books of Google Play store. Then click on “My Books” under Books Tab at the left column, you will see all your purchased books displayed at the right column.

Step 2 Under each book cover, you can see the book title and three dots. Click the dots, you will see what you can do to this book. From the below picture, you can download this book to pdf or epub.

Select “Export as PDF”, you can download the PDF directly, or ACSM file. Some time, it will open the PDF directly.

If the downloaded file is PDF, you get what you want now, no need to go further steps.

If the Google book is open with web browser directly, you can see a download button at the top right corner. Click on the download button, you will get google books in pdf format.

If the download file is ACSM file, you have to convert the ACSM File to PDF.

Steps of converting .acsm file to pdf:

Step 1. Install Digital Editions (ADE)

Step 2. Authorize with your Adobe ID. Create one if you still don't have it.

Step 3. Open the .ACSM file via ADE.

Step 4. ADE will download your google books to PDF.

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Step 5. Remove DRM from Google play Books with Epubor Ultimate.

Since the Google employs the DRM scheme to encrypt their books, most of the purchased Google books are protected by Adobe Adept DRM. To break up the DRM restriction, you can use Epubor Ultimate to remove DRM from the Google Play books and convert Google books to epub/mobi/azw3 to read on the popular eReaders.

Q1: I am unable to authorize ADE with google vendor id?

Trying to authorize my PC with Adobe Digital Editions using 'Google' as my ebook vendor. Authorization keeps failing with the error message.'Incorrect login ID or password for the selected eBook vendor. Please try again'. I know my login details are correct.

Workaround 1: Create an Adobe ID, and use this Adobe ID to authorize your Adobe Digital Editions. Please ensure you select eBook vendor as 'Adobe ID'.
Workaround 2: If Workaround 1 does not work for you, uninstall the ADE, reinstall it again. Erase authorization, then try Workaround 1 again.
Workaround 3: If Workaround 2 does not work for you, please ensure your adobe account information is correct. You can check this on logging in adobe web page with your Adobe account information. Someone suggests that changing the passwords to only letters and digital numbers will works fine.
If all above workarounds cannot fix your problem, please contact Google play customer service or Adobe customer service.

Q2: When I click on the 3 dot next to the book in my google books library. There is no download option unfortunately only to read. Out of all my books this is only happening to like 2-3 books all others have the option to download as pdf or download as epub.

Answer: If there is no download option, you are not able to download them on your computer. Here is the answer from Google customer service: Upon checking this books the reason why you’re not able to see ePUB and PDF file because this is due to publisher and file size restrictions, some books may not be available for download.

Part 2. Download Google Books to PDF (Free Google Books)

Besides the purchased Google books, we can view a large quantity of eBooks in Google books library for free as well. Google has collected these books from the library around the world to benefit the world-wide readers. This kind of Google eBooks can be divided into four types—full view, preview, snippet view and no preview books.

Download full view books from Google books

For full view books, you are able to view the full content of this kind of book and download them to your local device for free. You can follow below steps to download full view books from Google books.

Step 1. Open your web browser and enter https://books.google.com/. You will go to the Google books search page. Input the book title, or author you want to search and hit search bar to search the books.

Step 2. The Google will show the search results. You just need to click on the link of the Full view books.

Step 3. Now you will go to a new page where you can view the full content of this book. At the top right corner, you can see a gear icon. Click it and select 'Download PDF'at the dropdownlist. Now you only have to choose where to store this PDF at your computer.

Download preview books from Google books

For preview books, you can only read the limited pages because of some access restrictions. For this kind of Google books, you can only view the content at the browser, there is no Download option as the Full view Google books.

Download snippet view and no preview books

For snippet view books, Google does not have the copyright to display all the pages but only several lines in context. For no preview books, you can only see basic information about this kind of books. For these books, we are not able to download them as PDF or any other format.

If you really want to download preview, snippet or no preview books, you can check whether these books have ebook edition on sale. Usually, the Google will show you some vendors at the left column which has this book in stock as below picture.

Click ebook store, you will go to directly the book details. Then you can purchase it and download it.

Please remember that the most popular eBook vendors are not use PDF as their eBooks format, but AZW for Kindle books and Epub for Kobo Books. What's more, they even employ DRM scheme to encrypt the books. Don't worry. If you have downloaded Epubor Ultimate already, you can use it decrypt nearly 99% ebooks purchased from kindle, kobo, googleplay and nook stores.

Now you can download your Google books to PDF easily with above methods I've collected for you. If you have any better method, please share it in the comments.

If you want to make the full use of Google Play books, you should never missGoogle Play 101: Up to 16 Golden Tips and Tricks You Must Know

Iris Yan joined Epubor since 2017. She always wants to share everything related to ebook reading and improve your reading journey.

Google Books - is the biggest online library on the Web. It allows to search, preview and read online millions of books from libraries and publishers worldwide. But reading books on Google Books (online) is hardly comfortable. You can't even add bookmarks. Besides, Google Books doesn't allow to save books and read them offline on your tablet or e-reader like Kindle, Nook or Kobo. You can’t print Google Books and read them in bed, but need to sit in front of desktop screen that harms your eyes. Besides, if you use a ebook management program, where you use to organize all your ebook library, you want to download Google Books to your hard drive. But, ok, there are 3 ways to download Google Books to your desktop:
1. Use the Google’s PDF/EPUB download feature that is available for some out-of-copyright books
2. Download books manually from the Internet Explorer cache
3. Use one of the Google Books downloader programs
1. Use the Google’s PDF download feature for out-of-copyright books

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For some out-of-copyright books Google Books provides PDF or EPUB download option, that allows you to save (and therefore print and read offline) these books. To find books you can download, click on the 'Full view books' radio button before entering your search terms in the search box. Clicking on the 'Download' button on the book page will allow you to download a PDF of the book to your computer. Unfortunately, not all books that are fully viewable are downloadable as PDF files. The overall number of books with the full preview there is much larger. So you might be lucky if the book you need is available for download.
2. Download books manually from Internet Explorer cache
The book pages that you can view on Google Books are actually PNG images on HTML page. So, it is possible to save any visible book page as an image to your computer. You can 'save page as' in any browser and find the PNG image in the saved 'files' folder. But you need to scroll the book and repeat this 'save page as' operation for each page.
To make this process a little easier, you can use the following hack:
1. Open folder “C/Documents and Settings/%USER%/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files” on your computer and delete all of the content of the folder
2. Open the needed book on Google Books in Internet Explorer and scroll it down to the end (or use the page browser).
3. Open “Temporary Internet Files” folder. Copy all PNG files. These files are the pages of the scanned book
4. Now you can print the PNG files and compile them into single book using a PDF compiler software
3. Use one of Google Books downloaders
There are some tools that automate the routine operations described in the previous paragraph. But unfortunately, most of them don’t work properly – they either download only few book pages, or hang your computer, or cause ban of your Google Account. The most popular tool that was called Google Books Downloader was recently terminated by its creator. For now, the only tool that is recommended for safe downloading of Google Books - is Gooreader.
Though the primary feature of this small program is a comfortable book reader with realistic page flipping that allows to read Google Books on your desktop, it also can convert Google Books to PDF and save them to your computer. It works quite fast and can download a 300-pages book in few minutes. It also includes the inbuilt search tool that shows, which books have a full view, partial preview or no preview. You also can view the number of available pages of each book. Besides, it doesn’t require you to log in your Google Account, so it’s no risk that it could be banned.
Gooreader also allows to browse a book via table of contents, search inside book, zoom a book and even make annotations on the pages with a virtual marker. You can also add a book to your local library and after that the program will automatically save the last page you read.
Here is a short video, showing how it works:
Please note that Gooreader is useful, but not magic program. It can't open and download these pages that are not available on Google Books in the books with limited preview. The program costs just $19.95, but it's not a big deal if you really need to download Google Books.
Is it legal to download Google Books?
All these books, that you can read or preview at Google Books, are collected from libraries all over the world, scanned and converted to text using OCR by Google employees. Of course, all this content is out of copyright or with copyright given by owner/author. For books that may be protected by copyright, only 'snippets' are shown. Nevertheless before making any specific use of downloaded books, you need to confirm the legality of your own actions. The rules regarding public domain materials differ from country to country, and sometimes the specific use is not allowed. That is why a book's inclusion in Google Books doesn’t mean it can be downloaded anywhere in the world. For example, Google recommends not to engage in large scale redistribution or rehosting of the book files, sell digital or physical book copies, or help other people buy and sell them. But you can convert Google Books to PDF for personal reading needs.

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