Download books from Google Books as PNG images. It can be run either from the command-line or using a simple GUI (graphical interface). It should work out-of-the box for Unix systems (GNU/Linux, BSD) and (hopefully) for Windows.

For UNIX systems:

$ wget http://pysheng.googlecode.com/files/pysheng-VERSION.tgz
$ tar xvzf pysheng-VERSION.tgz
$ cd pysheng-VERSION

To install locally:

$ python setup.py install --user

To install system-wide:

$ sudo python setup.py install

Note that in order to save a PDF you need ReportLab installed.

$ pysheng-gui

http://pysheng.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/screenshot1.png

• Download a whole book:

$ pysheng "http://books.google.com/books?id=m5w5PRj5Nj4C"

• Download a whole book using the command-line and convert the images into a single PDF (requires Imagemagick). Notice that you can use the Book ID only.

$ convert $(pysheng "m5w5PRj5Nj4C") book.pdf