How can we download Google Books for Free?

In this article, we are going to guide our readers step by step so that they can download Google Books for Free.

But before that, let us describe what is Google Books.

What is Google Books?

Google offers a great repository of e-books via Google Books app. To open a Google Book, you can either use Google Books search engine owned by Google (Alphabet Inc.) or you can also use Google Play Books store. Both services let you save copies of e-books available on Google Books so that you can read them offline.

How to download Google Books for Free? (Source: Google Books)

Google Books was earlier known as Google Book Search, Google Print etc. It started in the company Google (now Alphabet Inc.) by its code-name Project Ocean. Now, it is a well known service from Alphabet Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in Google's digital database.

Books are provided either by publishers and authors through Google's program offering "Google Books Partner Program". Some books are also added by Google's library partners through another project known as "The Library Project". Additionally, Google has also partnered with a number of magazine publishers to digitize their books and magazines.

Now let us go through how to download books from Google Books.

Can You Download Any Title on Google Books for Free?

The very simple answer to this questions is - NO.

No, you cannot straight forward download Google Books for free. However, there are some tools and tricks available over Internet which claim to download Google Books for free.

Google Books allows users to preview some of the full pages from books in which the search terms appear if the book has no copyright registered. Or even if the book owner has given permission to Google to crawl the book for their search engine.

Google has categorized all he books in Google Books into these access levels:

Google Books Full view:

Books in this category are considered available for Public, and hence can be viewed or download fully. If some book is published by author or its owner and he has given permission for full view category to Google, then everyone can view or read or download this book.

Google Books - Read For Free

Google Books Preview:

For this category, the book author or publisher can set the percentage of the book available for preview. Users cannot copy or download or print such book previews. A watermark is displayed in these books stating "Copyrighted material" at the center or the bottom of several pages. Mostly all the books Google Books get from their Partner Program are available under this category.

Google Books Snippet view:

In this category, two to three lines of text surrounding the search query are displayed in cases where Google does not have permission of the copyright owner to display a preview. As per Google's policy,  any permission is not required as per the copyright law in order to show the snippet view for these books.

Google Books No preview:

Google also displays search results for books that are yet to be digitized. These are the books that have not been scanned yet, the text written in these books is not available with Google. Google only has the metadata,such as Book name, Book author, Book publisher, pages, ISBN and other information.

If you are looking for any specific book, you can try out Google Books Advanced Search feature - https://books.google.com/advanced_book_search?hl=en

How to Download Books From Google Books?

So, how can one download the books from Google Books that are in the Full View category? You can download your e-book so you can read it anywhere, even when you don't have an internet connection.

Download Google Books on Windows/Mac/Linux

1. On your computer, navigate to your Google Books Library section.
   
2. Select any of the available books you wish to download.
3. Navigate to context menu by selecting 'More' option and then select 'Export'.
   
4. You can select any of the options - 'Export as EPUB' or 'Export as PDF'.
5. EPUB file can be opened with Digital readers like ebook reader.
6. PDF file can be opened with by of the browser of Adobe Acrobat Reader.
   

Download Google Books on Android devices

1. In order to download Google Books on Android device, you need to download Google Play Books app from Play Store.
   
2. Downloading the book on Android is simple - just tap the book you want to download.
3. You can also tap More More and then Download option to make the book available offline.
4. Once the book is available offline, a Downloaded icon will be displayed in the Notifications section.
   

Download Google Books on Apple devices

1. Since Apple devices to do not support Google Play Books app, you need to open play.google.com/store/books on your browser.
   
2. Sign in with your Google account here, where you have the books.
   
3. Now, just tap on the book you want to download.

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What is Microsoft Windows Task Manager?

Task Manager is a utility which provides all the information regarding the processes being executed in the Windows operating system. Windows Task Manger has various sections - Processes, Performance, App history, Startup, Users, Details, Services.

Task Manager on Microsoft Windows is very much similar to what we have on Apple Mac OS known as Activity Monitor.

Task Manager in Windows 11

Till Windows 10, the very much popular way to open task manager on Windows 11 was to right click on Taskbar and select option 'Task Manager'. However, if you right click on Taskbar on Windows 11, you will not get this option. Microsoft moved all the options from Taskbar, now users can only see one option, i.e. Taskbar Settings.

How to launch Task manager on Microsoft Windows 11?

Here are the ways you can still open the Task Manager in Windows 11 -

Method 1: The Windows 11 Way

Microsoft has moved the options from Taskbar context menu to Start menu. So, in order to open Task Manager, right-click the Start button on the taskbar instead of right clicking directly on Taskbar.

Right Click on Start menu icon

 

Select Task Manager option from context menu

Select "Task Manager" from the menu that appears, and Task Manager will be launched.

Compact view of the Task Manager

Expanded view of Task Manager

Method 2: The Geeky way

You can launch Task manager using this very popular way used by Tech geeks. Just press Windows+R, then type "taskmgr" and hit Enter button on your keyboard. Task Manager will open up right in front of you.

Method 3: The traditional way

There is another traditional way users can still use, that is simply pressing Ctrl+Shift+Escape on your keyboard to bring up Task Manager.

Method 4: Ctrl+Alt+Delete

On you system's keyboard, press "Ctrl + Alt + Delete," you will see few options. To open Task Manager, select "Task Manager."

Method 5: Command Prompt

In case you are working on Windows Command Prompt, just type "taskmgr," and press Enter key. Task Manager will launch immediately.

Method 6: Windows PowerShell

In case you are working on Windows PowerShell, just type "taskmgr," and press Enter key. Task Manager will launch immediately.

Method 6: Search

Click the "Start" button or hit Windows key on your keyboard, and then type "Task Manager" into the search bar. The Task Manager app should be the first result. To open the Task Manager, click on its icon.