1. 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.
2. To download an eBook from Google Books you will need to know the URL where the eBook resides at. Open the Google Books Downloader and type in the URL for the eBook you want to download in PDF on Mac and the app will begin to download the eBook. Depending on the size of the book, it may take some time to download.

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Google Play Books is the one app you need for enjoying audiobooks and ebooks purchased from Google Play. Choose from millions of best selling ebooks, comics, textbooks, and audiobooks. Download your book to read or listen on the go. When you’re finished, find your next favorite from recommendations personalized just for you. Buy audiobooks and ebooks as you go - with no subscription required. In this method you can download books by your laptop. Download and Install the google books downloader on your laptop. It is available for MAC and WINDOWS both. GBD is free software and generally available on internet. After the installation just copy your book.

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.

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

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 “Download 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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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The following is a guide on how to download from Google Books to PDF format. Have you ever wanted to save a Google Book as PDF but did not know how? This article will tell you how to download ebooks in PDF format from this biggest online library that allows to search and read online millions of books.

Tools and Software

1. Google Book Downloader

Google Book Downloader is a free little application for Windows and Mac that allows you to download Google Books as PDFs to read them offline. You can then sync those PDF files to your Android, iPhone or any other device which supports PDF.

You can get the GBD from download.cnet.com, softpedia.com or the official website – googlebookdownloader.codeplex.com.

Download and install the software. Copy the URL for the book you want to download and paste the URL into the software. Click the “Start” button to begin to download from Google Books.

GBD is designed to run with Leopard on a Mac – Mac OS X 10.5 or later. The application works without a glitch on the Snow Leopard as well. It works in all Windows versions.

Note that only free ebooks can be retrieved in full. If a book has a limited preview, Google Book Downloader can only collect the parts you can read on the web. The program has automatic download option for public domain books and a manual option for DRM copy-protected books.

Once you have the ebook on your computer, you can send it to your Kindle or another e-reader.

2. GooReader

GooReader is a Windows app to download from Google Books to PDF and read offline. It is a paid app; the price ranges from $1.99 to $19.95, depending on capabilities. Extra features presented in the most expensive version, the Gooreader Pro are: Create Local Library, Download Google Books to PDF, Access Google Library, Download Google Books to EPUB.

3. EDS Google Books Downloader

The EDS Google Books Downloader is yet another piece of software for downloading Google Books, available form everydaysoft.com.

EDS Google Books Downloader is free. It supports the following formats for saving: PDF, PNG and JPG. The image formats allow you to open the ebook with an image viewer on your computer.

The software boasts fast download speed, user-friendly interface, scheduling file saving and batch processing.

Platforms: Windows; no Mac OS support.

4. FSS Google Books Downloader

FSS Google Books Downloader is a free lightweight tool to download books from Google Books, it is available at software.informer.com. Just like the EDS, it is also able to convert books to PDF, JPG or PNG. You can adjust the resolution or DPI to optimize the reading parameters.

Platforms: Windows; no Mac OS support.

Downloading from Your Google Play Books Library

Any books you purchased through the Google Play are in your Google Play Books library. To download your books from there, go to your library at play.google.com/books. Find the book you want. Hold the cursor over that book, then click the menu button in the upper-right corner of the cover. The download will begin.

Downloading Paid Books from the Google Books Search Engine

Find the book you want to download in the Google Books search engine. Click the Gear icon in the upper-right corner of the page. Purchase the book. Select “Download PDF” or “Download EPUB”. The download will begin.

Downloading Free Books from the Google Books Search Engine

Books that are out of copyright and in the public domain, can be downloaded as a PDF for free. These books show an eBook – Free button. Click on the button, and you will be prompted to sign in to your Google account, if you are not. Go to “Download”, click PDF or EPUB. The download from Google Books will begin.

The Google Books Project

Google Books searches through the books and magazines scanned by Google and then converted to text via optical character recognition. The Google Books offer access to the largest online body of knowledge, but it has been criticized for potential copyright violations.

The project was first announced in 2004. As of 2015, over 25 million books were digitized by the Google Books project. Some years ago, the company estimated that there are about 130 million unique titles in the world, and it intends to scan all of them.