Simply click the 'Free Google eBooks' or 'Full view' on the left side of the results page, to see all the results for free Google Books. Click on each one to open it. If you'd like to select that book, go to the top of the page, and click 'Download'.
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The Google Play website gives you instant access to thousands of books including business, computer programming and financial books in the eBook format. Ebooks can be read online or on a Google Books supported device. If you want to read the books offline, or print and share them, you must first download the eBooks to your computer and convert them into PDF or image files. You can do this through Internet Explorer without downloading any third party software. Alternatively, you can use third party software such as the free Google Book Downloader or the paid version of GooBooks.
Internet Explorer
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Open the Internet Explorer Web browser with administrative privileges.
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Navigate to the Google book that you want to download.
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Open the folder C:Documents and Settings%admin_name%Local SettingsTemporary Internet Files in the Windows Explorer file browser.
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Delete all of the files in the Temporary Internet Files folder.
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Click through all of the pages of the Google book in the IE Web browser.
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Copy all of the PNG files in the Temporary Internet Files folder to another folder. These files will contain images of the book you clicked through in the Web browser.
Google Book Downloader
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Download the Google Book Downloader program (link available in the Resources section) and install it.
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Open the book you want to download in any Web browser.
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Copy the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) for the book from the browser's address bar.
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Paste the URL of the book in the Google Book Downloader URL text box.
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Click on the 'Download' button to download the book as a PNG file.
GooBooks
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Download the paid version of the GooBooks program (link available in the Resources section) and install it.
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Click on the 'Google Books' tab on the left side of the screen.
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Click on the 'My Google eBooks' option in the menu that appears.
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Click on the book that you want to download in the library that appears.
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Click on the 'Start' button in the confirmation window to save the eBook as a PDF file.
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In the Google Play Books Android application, there is an option to keep an ebook on a device if the user wants to do it. So when you decide to do such a thing, the ebook may be stored somewhere on the Android device. I would like to know where the ebook is stored. I searched in /mnt/storage and I only found Aldiko ebooks (in the /mnt/storage/eBooks folder), not the Google Play eBooks.
Thanks for your answsers.
PS : if it can help, I do this on an Archos G9 101 tablet.
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I checked several sources on this. Googles own help page states:
The Google Play Books app automatically stores books in the location with the most free space, whether that's your device or your SD card, as of when the app was first launched. If you've upgraded your app, your books will continue to be stored in the same location they were before the upgrade.
Which is not very precise. A discussion on the Archos forum reveals a setting available in the app (Settings> Storage location), but there you can only chose between internal and external storage. But the same thread as well as another one on XDA reveal the path as being /data/data/com.google.android.apps.books/ (which is the apps data directory on internal storage), the Archos forums thread also mentioning Android/data/com.google.android.apps.books/files/volumes/, which could apply to the 'external storage'.
As I don't use Google Books, maybe you could check those locations and confirm.
Note that accessing /data/data/* requires 'root powers'. Without that, you probably won't see anything in that place.
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If you want to add books you downloaded on your computer, the books are stored in: /data/data/com.google.android.apps.books/files/accounts/{your google account}/volumes, and when you are inside the 'volumes' folder you will see some folders with a name that is some code for that book. Once you click one of those folders you will see 2 .png files: those are the cover of the book.
You can select 'enable PDF uploading'. This will allow you select all your books and upload to your Google account. That way, you can read from any device by just signing in. And you can select to view offline.
This reduces the amount of data needed on your device.
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