We showed you GooReader
back in August, and it was already a very slick way to read Google Books titles on your Windows desktop. It's now been updated to version 2.0, and GooReader is looking good and more functional than ever before. In addition to getting a bit of a facelift, GooReader 2.0 lets you highlight blocks of text or draw little notes on a page. There's no text tool this time around, but don't be surprised to see that functionality in a future build.
GooReader will pick up where you leave off when you close an e-book, but bookmarking specific pages isn't supported. Exporting to PDF is still limited to the paid version --
Google Book Downloader offers the functionality for free, if you'd rather download now and read later.
Tags: apps, ebooks, google, google books, GoogleBooks, library, read, windows
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Subscribe to commentsnikescarNov 26th 2010 10:37PM
What happened to the windows, linux, mac, etc tags on these posts?
earlsNov 26th 2010 11:00PM
Google Book is a f-king joke. Hey, thanks for the huge collection of extremely common public domain works found anywhere... and all those missing pages from still copyrighted works. You know, that's fine, but there should at least be a paywall to gain access to the full book. NOPE. Here, enjoy this book with all of the pages torn out, this will help! And instead of instigating copyright reform, they collapse to the tiny minded opposition. Ah well.
releetedNov 29th 2010 11:48AM
@(Unverified) I think you are missing the point. Google Books is more about the "Google" than the "Books", really. Being able to search any book's contents rather than the vague book titles or summaries is what makes the tool invaluable to anyone trying to research something that is otherwise not available as bits or bytes.