Free Books on Google

[Garpal Gumnut]

Pure heaven.

What a collection.

http://books.google.com/

gg

 

[stocksontheblock]

Brilliant ... thanks for this!!!

Shame, I need to get away from the PC, not find more reasons to be in front of it

 

[ThingyMajiggy]

Great, thanks for this! Has some pretty decent trading books there too.

 

[jono1887]

google's had this for a while now..

 

[white_goodman]

google's had this for a while now..

THIS!

plus if you wanna get books id reccomend www.4shared.com

 

[It's Snake Pliskin]

Are they all free? If so how do they manage it?

 

[$20shoes]

Owners of Sony eReaders, users of the Stanza iPhone book reader, and anyone else with a device that reads the ePub format can now grab more than 1 million works from Google Books' archives. The books may contain some mistakes, as most were simply scanned and run through an OCR image-to-text process, but it's free content in a free format, which is hard to beat. [Inside Google Books via ReadWriteWeb]


Oh and Snake, a litlle more on their agreements here -

http://books.google.com/googlebooks/agreement/

and someone needs to review Nick Radge's "Adaptive Analysis" -

http://books.google.com/books?id=QZnoPQAACAAJ&dq=Nick+Radge

( I might stick one up there on the weekend)

 

[waz]

The copyright on these books has expired. Thats how they do it.

Anyone can reproduce these books for free. Including Penguin who prints them and sells them in book shops under the banner "penguin Classics' for $2.95.
Which is just the cost of the paper and profit margin.

Print them at home and sell them in your garage sale if you want.

 

[$20shoes]

The copyright on these books has expired. Thats how they do it.

Anyone can reproduce these books for free. Including Penguin who prints them and sells them in book shops under the banner "penguin Classics' for $2.95.
Which is just the cost of the paper and profit margin.

Print them at home and sell them in your garage sale if you want.

Yes, but they also have agreements in place to display significant previews of most books and publications, and their aim is to catalog everything in print

For example look at Steidlmayer -

http://books.google.com.au/books?id...e=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Although some pages are omitted form their previews, you get a significant amount of content ( well, enough to draw you in and get the gist

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

I'm on a slow download.

Can I read the full text in epub of these books through my firefox?

gg

 

[$20shoes]

I'd think you may need an extension gg.

Openberg looks like one such -

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5275

Google should build it into Google Docs ( they probably will at some point).

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

I'd think you may need an extension gg.

Openberg looks like one such -

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5275

Google should build it into Google Docs ( they probably will at some point).

Thanks mate.

gg

 

[It's Snake Pliskin]

If the books are free how can they be printed?

 

[It's Snake Pliskin]

If the books are free how can they be printed?

I would like to print one. Can it be done and how i can't see any links etc?

 

[ThingyMajiggy]

I would like to print one. Can it be done and how i can't see any links etc?

They aren't all free, most only have a limited view, can't read the whole thing, you can go into advanced search and do "full view only" then there are certain ones you can download in PDF format, which you would then be able to print, but it says the only ones you can download are the ones in the public domain where the copyright has expired, which means you can only download ones that were published before 1923 for the US.

 

[It's Snake Pliskin]

They aren't all free, most only have a limited view, can't read the whole thing, you can go into advanced search and do "full view only" then there are certain ones you can download in PDF format, which you would then be able to print, but it says the only ones you can download are the ones in the public domain where the copyright has expired, which means you can only download ones that were published before 1923 for the US.

Thanks Sam that was most helpful.

 

[GumbyLearner]

Thanks Sam that was most helpful.

Also Snake I would suggest using Foxit Reader and not Adobe.
Adobe takes so long to load pdf's, FoxIt is public and will take a small fraction of time to load the pdf.

cheers
Gumby

 

[Chris45]

There's a torrent called "Trading Books" that contains a whole library. Google it if you're interested.

 

[It's Snake Pliskin]

Also Snake I would suggest using Foxit Reader and not Adobe.
Adobe takes so long to load pdf's, FoxIt is public and will take a small fraction of time to load the pdf.

cheers
Gumby

Thanks Gumby