I don’t know if Google would like this, but it is, definitely, not a hack. This is just teaching you how to copy the files that Google temporarily saved in your computer before showing it to you through internet browser.
Just follow the steps bellow;
1. Open your Internet Explorer (Not Firefox). Make sure that you are the admin of your computer. Then, go to the page in books.google.com that you want to download.
2. Now, go to “C:\Documents and Settings\%your admin name%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\” of your computer. Delete all of the content of that folder.
3. In your Internet Explorer, refresh the page and browse-thru the pages of the books that you want to download.
4. Refresh the “Temporary Internet Files” folder. Copy all PNG files to another folder. You can distinguish PNG Files through its icon.
These files that you have just copied are, actually, the pages of the books that you have just browsed.
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Hi
this post is so helpful for everybody who wants to download books from google
hey this post is great,
I deleted 20 giga!!! however could you please tell me with which program I may open the PNG files (allthough on my computer they appear as .tmp)
thank you for helping
Nice hack buddy
thankx
amazing.
Hey, thanks!
I’ve found you can also just use your own user account rather than login as an admin on Windows, but instead find the PNG files by going to IE’s Tools > Internet Options > General > Browsing History > Settings > View Files to see the cache. I reckon you probably don’t even need to delete the files in the cache, just the PNG ones, or don’t even do that, just grab all the PNG files from the cache that appear to be from Google Books (provided you don’t mind getting any other book pages).
Just goes to show how you can’t stop information sharing, really.
@cycadia, spot on, though I have kept the jpg files
Cycadia sadly that doesn’t work either. I tried it, no JPGs or PNGs that were the right files. Print Screen is the only way to save them, and that would take hours of time. There is no way to save them through cache that I’ve ever found, and the “google downloaders” don’t work.
Sorry to comment twice, but i wanted to mention:
2. Now, go to “C:\Documents and Settings\%your admin name%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\” of your computer. Delete all of the content of that folder.
There is no “Documents and Settings” on my Vista computer. Documents has its own area but that doesn’t help either.
you can just right click on the page and save it as an image because every page is an image
y to do png stuff
Try copying the png files from the temporary internet folder onto a place on your hardrive first i.e. …/My Pictures
Once they are there, try to open them again. (Mine open in Photoshop CS2 where i can then File/Export/Layers as files…(and choose JPG as format).
Now that it is a JPG, you can use a number of methods to convert it to PDF. (You may as well change all the PNG files required to individual JPG’s, then batch process the JPG’s to a complete PDF consisting of all the original pages from the google book.
Alternatively, once the PNG files are saved from the temporary internet folder onto a place on your hardrive i.e…./My Pictures, try one of the following…
1) Right-Click the file, then choose “Convert to Adobe PDF”. This will make a single page PDF of the original PNG file.
2) Select all the png files (from within …/My Pictures), Right-Click over the top of the selection, then choose “Combine in Adobe Acrobat”
This will make a multiple page PDF of all the PNG files that were selected. Make sure you save your PDF.
Now you can either email the PDF to your itouch or use Files Lite + Wifi to send the file to your itouch to read on the train to work! Enjoy!
but, some google just show some of page, not all of page. How about that ?
Very interesting!
and where to find temporary files on vista 64?
Thanks a Lot Man U rock’ssssssssss. But i faced one problem. If i copied pnr file some images are missing so what i did was Opened the PNR files manually and saved the images. Its a bit big work but i got the book which i needed.
wow excellent 100% workable tips..i used this.
Hey!!!!!!!!There is no “Local Settings” folder on my computer!!!!What to do?
Wonderful…simply the best way to get those books
Thx a million it is very helpful tip
greaaaat its work…. thank you…
@SaM : maybe your ‘local setting’ folder was hidden… just unhidden it…
nice ideas and I have to say that folks should learn to use those CMD Commands! like doing this way:
Start->RUN-> “CMD” or “COMMAND” once the DOS box appears Start by using the cd (change directory) command, move to the directory that contains the files you wish to copy.
Once in the directory that contains the files you wish to copy, type a command similar to one of the below commands.
copy *.* c:\mydir
In the above example, the command would copy every file in the current directory to the “mydir” directory.
copy *.PNG c:\mydir
In the above example, the command would copy every PNG, or PNG file, in the current directory into the “mydir” directory.Just change according to your needs. We used to do this trick to copy cabs to the Options Folder Back in WIN95 circa!
Best to all
Sarge
Nice job Jason,
it really works nice except that collecting many pages is quite tiresome. i dont know if there are any softwares to do that.
for those of you who couldnt find documents and settings you can clear the temporary internet files from the internet explorer page. just go to tools, then options and in the general tab find the browsing history and then you just have to delete. You can use the same procedures to open the temporary internet files folder just in the general tab under browsing history click settings and then view files. Done
you are genius,the simplest, the best.
Firefox + Zotero !
You can also find the png file in the files saved by zotero after having captured the page.
Use Irfan view to convert it into jpg.
you are the man, an effective way to do this without downloading fifty things, so obvious
Thanks a lot I have been googling for many days
not working:(
thanks – but it’s not what I want. I want the whole book. I don’t want to look at the pages first
Hey i can see .png files but lot of pages are missing in dat .png files
can any one tell me how i can download each n every page
Thank U!
Its amazing. and it really work.
How about for Vista? What folder would it be in? I know Vista sucks but I don’t get why everyone offering tutorials only suggests how you can do it with the ancient XP, as obviously Vista does not have a c: documents and settings!
Cycadia- there is no “Browsing History” in Internet Explorer anymore, so that does not work either.
is this trick work on win7?? can you tell me the steps?
On Vista and Win7 the temporary internet files are located in: “C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Temp\”
I would like to join to down load the books
try to download this tool: “Google Book Downloader”
Ouuu thanx that’s too good about this ie….
in firefox on linux this is very simple
you can find all png files on .mozilla/firefox/xxxx/cache in home folder
THIS IS APPLICABLE FOR FOOLISH BOOKS ,NOT BOOKS MEANT FOR PROFESSIONALS SO DONT TRY THIS IF U R NOT KID N FOOL
I want to download novel “three mistakes of my Life”.How can i download it?
Thanks .. It is awesome trick
vista and windows 7 user try in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files
THANKS man…I was looking for this maybe couple of months …it really works
Hi,
I am unable to find appdata in my windows 7 . also i m unable to find temporary internet files. i am getting only the dialog box of it . kindly help me
it’s realy work….
thnk you…….