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08-14-2010, 10:27 PM | #18 |
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ermmm...I guess I've heard the term app long time ago when I learn JAVA, and I think I've used the term app as a short word for a software application for years before smartphone ipad, iphone or android came to the market....and this is certainly not look like a google product.
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Well, I like the app and registered it. $20. The main feature I'm aware that the $20 bought me was the ability to generate the book as a local PDF file.
I like the app because it helped make sense of the cloud of Google books available of Edmund Spenser's works. I had spent a frustrating time searching from the Barnes and Noble site (to download to my Nook) and from the Borders site (to download as epub to my Sony reader Windows application) and some poking around directly on Google Books. I downloaded several things with titles like "the complete works of edmund spenser" only to find that they were essays about his works, or volume 3 of a five volume set (the other volumes not being available), etc. Using GooReader I was able to work through things and find a good single-volume edition of his works, which I downloaded as a PDF. So the primary benefit I experienced was feeling significantly less frustrated and having actually found wheat among the chaff. Now, whether another person would have been able to get good results with comparable frustration levels using the Google Books interface directly, I don't know. What I *do* know is that I found it quite useful. I am aware it gave me a PDF and not an epub, but I will convert it myself. Obviously my primary use of the product is not as "just another ereader." Which is not its primary claim of value, I don't think. But I do like the ereader interface and I even like the animated page turning. De gustibus non est disputandem. I did not encounter a case in which GooReader said a book was full preview and the book was not full preview. But I haven't accessed a lot of books yet. Mainly I was weeding through chaff to find the wheat, so I actually accessed only the winners. ymmv. |
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So it can download to PDF "Full View" books (meaning those that are not in the public domain, those that you can view only in your internet browser)?
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I am not able to answer your question. I downloaded as a PDF one work from before 1910. I do not know anything about the distinction you are asking about.
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http://books.google.com/books?id=lB6F9z9D-9IC But you can't download it. |
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08-21-2010, 09:12 PM | #25 |
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I, too, do not see the point in emulating page turns and bookshelves for digital editions.
The website claims that converting Google books to PDF is the "ideal solution" for Sony reader, Kindle and Nook! PDF seems pretty useless to me on such small screens, unless you can control the format to create a PDF specifically for that size of screen. Can you do that? And then there's that name. GooReader? Seriously? Are there a lot of people out there reading goo, or is this a product for babies? |
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If they make an app for the iPad/iPhone world, that would be useful. These devices can't download a PDF file cuz they have no "desktop". They require an app to own the file. Thus, a google reader could be useful for them. But a Windows only app? Not so useful, IMHO.
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It seems they are trying to develop mac/ ios/ android versions.
Goo reader may be ok for exporting to pdf (I have not bought it). It is also potentially very useful to keep a link to a google book; and probably the best way to quickly going to the page one wishes to read in a google book. Yet, they also claim that it is a reader; the program "even" has "drawing" tools. But one cannot even scroll down on a page? (unless I miss something). This reader shows pages in the double-page mode, has a "fit to width" option, but it is not possible to scroll down? (Are we supposed to use this in >20'' screens only?) --Edit: Correction: I "missed something." One can move the page up/downwards by pressing the right-click on the mouse Last edited by mrevent; 09-03-2012 at 03:53 PM. |
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