Sunday, February 10, 2013

How can I find Children's books in public domain from google book?

Q. When I search books in public domain from google book,
I can only specify the keyword to find what I want to read.
Since they are not categorised it's really hard to find "some children's books"

"children's books" means some kind of easy books to read for low grade Elementary school kids.
Does anybody have an idea the way of finding those kind of books in public domain from google book?

A. Hmm, I don't use Google books and don't know what it is. Try wikipedia to see if you can find the names of some children's books authors. The Brother's Grim wrote so-called children's stories, but you might want to read them to make sure they're appropriate for your children. Also, look up the author of Alice in Wonderland, which is in the public domain, and that's by Lewis Carrol (not 100% sure), I think the Carrol title is Through the Looking Glass. Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Cinderella, Hansel and Grettel. Whatever book or story you can remember from childhood might be in the public domain and I know these titles are. Look up some of these titles on Wikipedia and it might lead you to other childrens books and children's books authors.

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page and http://www.classicbookshelf.com/ are two sites where you can read or download for free books that are in the public domain.

Is there a program for downloading the books from google books?
Q. Is there a program for downloading the books from google books, not only viewing the books on the web site on the web browser.

A. Google Book Downloader is small utility which allows you to save book as PDF from google to your local filesystem.

This project is purely non-commercial and for educational purpose.
This project does not promote any illegal conduct of any kind.
http://www.codeplex.com/GoogleBookDownloader
Cathy

How do you automatically cite google books again?
Q. I have used Google Book before.. and I know there's a link where you could just press it and it will automatically cite the book for you (Everything will be written in MLA style) so basically you just copy and paste it... but I cannot find the link anymore.

A. http://books.google.com/bkshp?hl=en&tab=wp

Is that is? To get there you go to the main screen, click more, and then books.

If not I'm not sure.




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