Free app downloads any Google Book Search item as PDF

Google's Book Search already provides PDF download links for all the public domain title it indexes, like the works of William Shakespeare. It's a handy way to peruse titles later when you don't have high speed internet access available.

Suppose you want to check out a title like the February 1976 version of Ebony Jr. Then what?

You could manually browse it one page at a time and save each image, or you could fire up Google Book Downloader and let it do the heavy lifting. Locate a title in Book Search and find its code in the URL (http://books.google.com/books?id=ub4DAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_hpmagazines). Copy and paste it into Book Downloader, and select what you want to save.

Press save selected, and Book Downloader will automatically combine the saved images into a PDF for you to read later.

Edit: forgot to mention earlier, .Net 3.5 is required.

[via Google Operating System]

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