Nov 29,2012 10:41 pm / Posted by Hall Paular to eBooks Topics
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- If you are looking for the best way to download Google Books on Mac OS for free, then here is the solution. Google Books Downloader is the free tool which lets you download Google eBooks for free. We have already talked about best sites to download free audio books and way to play them on your computer and iPhones.Its Mac time now. Using this free program is a cake walk.
Kindle is an ebook reader to read ebooks that you buy from Kindle Store. It's also available to transfer ebooks on your computer to read on your Kindle. If you want to read a great number of free ebooks on your Kindle, you can download Google books. eBooks you download from Google Books are PDF and ePub format. Kindle can support PDF format natively. But it can't support ePub. If you download ePub books, you can convert ePub to MOBI, which is compatible with Kindle.
Download Google Books to Kindle
Part 1: Download PDF or ePub books from Google Books
Step 1: Go to Google Books and choose an ebook you want to read.
Step 2: Click the 'Download PDF' or 'Download ePub' button to save the ebook to your computer.
Part 2: Convert PDF or ePub book to Kindle compatible format using Calibre
Though Kindle can support PDF format, but it's not the best format to read on Kindle. You can convert PDF and ePub to MOBI format with Calibre. Download videos from beebop 2 with mac.
Step 1: Add PDF book or ePub book into the Calibre.
Step 2: Click the book in the list to highlight it and click the 'Convert books' from the toolbar.
Step 3: Choose MOBI as output format from the 'Output Format' drop-down menu.
Then the Calibre will convert ebook to MOBI format. You can also use free online converter like Online-Convert.com or 2epub.com to convert PDF or ePub book to MOBI ebook for you Kindle.
Part 3: Transfer ebook from your computer to your Kindle
Step 1: Connect your Kindle to your computer with USB cable.
Step2: Copy the PDF or MOBI ebook into the Kindle's 'documents' folder.
Now you can enjoy Google books on your Kindle.
Useful Tips: If you want to read your Kindle MOBI ebook on your iPad, iPhone with iBooks, you can change MOBI ebook to ePub on Mac with the Mac MOBI to ePub Converter or MOBI to ePub Converting Software. It can make conversion with wonderful speed and quality.
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What an attractive advertisement! I bet some of you already have purchased this new Mac. As the development of technology, the screen of the tablet and smart phone is bigger and bigger. People choose to read eBooks on tablets are mostly enjoy the big screen feature. If you are really intending to dive into the ebook world because of the screen, MacBook Air will be a good option. Since you have your Mac ready, I will share you some tips and tricks of reading Google books on Mac. Why I choose google play books? Because you will never find any exclusive Google Play reader app named Google Play books for Mac like Kindle for Mac on your Mac computer.
Part 1. Read Google books online on Mac
Read Google books on mac with web browser
This is the universal known way to read Google books on mac. Do not want to download any apps on your computer? This way is what you want. Below is the detailed steps.
1Log in your Google account and go to My Books-->eBooks, and you will find all your purchased eBooks there.
2Just click the book cover, the book will be open with your web browser. Mine is Chrome.
According the above picture, you can see the table of content, font changing, search bar, help button and bookmark button. So if you are not planning to read Google books offline on mac, these features will satisfy your basic needs.
Part 2. Read Google books offline on Mac
If you are not satisfied with the online web reader, you can also read Google books offline on Mac. Here I will introduce two different ways to read Google books offline. You can practice the one you like best after knowing how it works. To read Google books offline on Mac, we have to download google play books to Mac at first.
Must-have stepDownload Google play books on Mac
Go to My Books-->>Ebooks, you will see all your purchased Google Play Books in your library. Find the book you want to download and click the three dots under the book cover and you will see that there some options as below picture.
Here you will encounter two possible scenarios at this process.
Scenario 1: When you click on 'Download EPUB' or 'Download PDF' , you will download the google books as epub file or PDF file directly.
In this situation, you can just open these epub or pdf file with your Adobe Digital Editions for reading.
Scenario 2: When you click on 'Download EPUB' or 'Download PDF' , you will get the acsm file instead of EPUB or PDF file.
But what is ACSM file? Generally speaking, ACSM file is not a real ebook but you can consider it as the link for you to download the real Google books. But you need to do more steps before downloading the real google play books which is authorizing your computer with your Adobe ID. If you do not have one, just create one at the official Adobe website. If you still have not installed the Adobe Digital Editions, please download it here.
Authorize Adobe ID as below instruction.
Run Adobe Digital Editions. At your Menu bar, click 'Help'-->>'Authorize Computer'. The authorize window will pop up. Just fill in your Adobe ID and passwords, and then click on 'Authorize' button to finish the authorization.
When you have successfully authorized your computer with Adobe ID, just drag and drop the .ACSM file to the main interface of Adobe Digital Editions. The google books will be downloaded automatically.
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When the google book has been downloaded to your computer completely, it will open automatically at the Adobe Digital Editions as below picture.
Also, you can find this downloaded books at your computer at the folder at its default path: /user/user name/Documents/Digital Editions. In below picture, you can see that this book is not with the extension .acsm, but .pdf which means this book has been downloaded successfully.
If you are still confused of downloading Google book, you may find the answer in this article: How to Download Google Books to PDF.
Read Google books on mac with Adobe Digital Editions
Since Google Play does not develop its own reader apps, it allows you to download your google play books(.acsm file) on mac via Adobe Digital Editions. What's more, when Google books has been downloaded successfully with ADE, it will automatically open in ADE. That's why ADE is the first tool I want to share here for reading Google books on mac. It can open and read Adobe adept DRM protected eBooks, like Google play books.
Read Google books in iBooks or any other third party reader app
As the Mac user, I bet you must be very familiar with the iBooks, the built-in eBook reader on Mac computer. It is an amazing thing to read your books on mac in iBooks, right? It is universal known that Google books are protected by Adobe's DRM while the iBooks app can only open epub or pdf ebooks without DRM protection or purchased from iBooks store. To read Google books in iBooks, we have to remove DRM from Google play books.
It is a very easy step with the help of one powerful tool--Epubor Ultimate How to download google on apple mac. which can remove DRM from eBooks purchased from Google play, Amazon Kindle and Kobo.
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Run Epubor Ultimate, you will see the downloaded book will automatically load under the Adobe tab at the left side bar. Just drag the book from left to right column and the book will be decrypted automatically. Easy like ABC, right?
When the the google play book has been decrypted, you can click on 'Decrypted' or the folder icon to open the output folder stored the decrypted google books. Perfect resize 7 free download for mac.
2Read Google Books in iBooks or any third party reader apps easily
Just find the decrypted google books and drag & drop it to the main interface of iBooks on mac.
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Double click the book cover to read google books in iBooks. You can see clearly the google play books display very well at the iBooks library.
Photo editing for mac free download. Since you get the DRM-FREE Google books, you can also read this book at any other third party eBook reader apps. I know some ebook lovers prefer to managing all of their books at one reader apps for better management.
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