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Originally Posted by shalym
Ok...when I went to books.google.com and typed in "Treasure Island" I ended up on this page https://books.google.com/books?id=UP...island&f=false
I then decided to click on the "Ebook-Free" button to download the book, and it took me to google play to get the book. I had to use a google account to download the book. (although I didn't need a payment method attached to the account)
So yes...google books doesn't sell anything, and you can't download anything from there either--not even free books that are in the public domain. |
I assure you that you can download out of copyright books from Google Books; I've downloaded a large number of books from there associated with my Egyptology degree.
Try this link, for example:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...elzoni&f=false
This should display the title page of a book called "Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids", by Giovani Belzoni, published in 1820. In the upper right corner of the page is a "gearwheel" button. Click it and you get a drop-down menu which says:
My Library
Help
Advanced Book Search
Download EPUB
Download PDF
Plain Text
The bottom three items on the menu get you the page scan PDF (which is what I always download), a horrible ePub generated from uncorrected OCR on the scanned pages, and the same thing as ASCII text.