Find out how to download book preview pages with FSS Google Books Downloader.
In my past blog post, I have already shared with you how to download free preview pages of books with Google Books Downloader Lite.
This tutorial I am using another free downloading tool called FSS Google Books Downloader.
This tool has a bit more functions as compared to the former.
But it is still very easy to setup and download preview pages of books at Google Books website.
Download book preview pages with FSS Google Books Downloader
Now I'm going to explain how to setup the software and download the preview pages of books from Google Books.
I am breaking the tutorial into three steps:
Step 1: Install and set up FSS Google Books Downloader
Go to FSS Google Books Downloader.
Click on the green color "Download Last Version" button.
From there you just follow the instruction and install this free tool in your computer.
After you have installed this free tool, launch or open FSS Google Books Downloader.
Configure settings
First choose where you want to save your downloaded file.
By default, it has already set the "Save to" to your Desktop.
But if you want to change it to other location in your computer, click on the blue color "Browse" icon next to the empty space, titled "Save to".
A menu pops up, choose the location you want to save the downloaded book preview pages.
After you have decided, then click the "OK" button.
Underneath the "Save to", there are three options for you choose from.
This is for you to choose the format of the output of the Google book preview pages: PDF, JPG or PNG.
If you just want to read the preview pages, then you can just set it at: PDF.
But if you want to edit the text of these preview pages with OCR, then set it to: JPEG or PNG format.
When you set it in JPEG/PNG format, the downloaded text comes with each individual page.
The "Resolution(px)" and "DPI" settings, you can reset them higher for a clearer image.
Now, let's find out how to download the preview pages.
Step 2: How to download preview pages from Google books
Go to Google Books website to get the book which you like to download its preview pages.
Make sure the book has the word "Preview".
Right click on the book title or the word "Preview".
A context menu pops up, click on "Copy link address".
Now let's go to the FSS Google Books Downloader interface.
Step 3: How to download with FSS Google Books Downloader
At the interface, place your mouse cursor over the "Paste URL" button and click on it.
Wait for the selected book to be set at the interface.
Once it has finished, the book cover, its title together with description of the book appeared inside the FSS Google Book Downloader interface.
Now click on the "Download" button.
While it is downloading, you can see the green color bar gradually filling up.
Once it's completed downloading, a box pops up with a green color tick sign.
If you set it as "PDF" format, click "Open PDF" button.
Instantly the downloaded preview pages will appear in the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
To close the pop-up box, click the "OK" button or the red color "X" icon.
You can also close the FSS Google Books Downloader interface, by clicking on the red "cross" button at the top right hand corner.
In fact the completed downloaded PDF file is already saved on location which you have set earlier in STEP # 1.
If you saved it on JPEG format, you also see a similar box with a green color tick sign.
To view the saved preview pages, click "Open folder" button.
Again you also see an identical; file named after the book title.
That's all.
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