How does Google Books work?
"Google Books" or "Google Books" works like Google's web and image search. Here, however, you are not searching the web, but digitized books. The selection ranges from fiction and non-fiction to scientific works as well as teaching and specialist literature. We show you how it works and what you should consider.
Search and find on Google Books:
- The book search engine can be found at book.google.de. There you can enter the title of a work or a keyword in the search field. If you know the ISBN of the book, you can enter it here and - if available - will be directed to the book you are looking for.
- Google Books now gives you a selection of different books, starting with the best match. For example, if you search for "Choose Political System Germany", you will currently receive several dozen works with exactly this title. Here it helps to add an author if you are looking for a specific work.
- If you have found the book you are looking for or would like to browse one of the listed works, all you have to do is click on it and the results for the entered keyword will be marked. In this case, the words "Political system", "Germany" and "choose" are highlighted in yellow.
- In the left column you will find more information about the title as well as major book and mail order companies where you can buy the book. You can also view the nearest library that has the work in its range on Google Books.
- A small search field is also very helpful (also in the left overview), with which you can search through the called book for key words such as "election system".
Google Books - keep in mind:
- For copyright reasons, you are usually only able to read samples from the books. The spectrum ranges from books in which you only read the table of contents to literature, half of which you can see.
- With a Google account, you can get a little more insight into a book. However, Google does log your page views for this. Here we show you how you can set up an account quickly and easily.
- You can only view the books on Google Books, there is no download button. With the software "Google Books Downloader" you can download sections of many books as JPG, PDF or PNG files.
- In addition, you have the option to buy many titles directly as eBooks. Payment is usually made via Google Wallet.