Find Free eBooks with Google (Electronic Books)

Contributor Icon Contributed by AlexTheBeast Date Icon April 2, 2005  
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Googe will easily show you all those ebooks that are hanging out there for free!


Once you learn google search, you can find anything. Want some ebooks? Oh, yeah… google does that easily. Another power searching lesson coming right up.

Google: -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” +(“/ebooks”|”/book”) +(chm|pdf|zip)

    What does all of this mean? The -inurl htm and -inul html is attempting to get rid of regular webpages and show just index pages. Looking for index of in the title is doing the same. Using the pipe ( | ) tells google to look for something OR something else. Here were are telling google to look for book or ebook directories… and we have listed several common ebook formats (zip, pdf, chf).

If you would like to look for a particular author or title just tack it to the end of your search.

Google: -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” +(“/ebooks”|”/book”) +(chm|pdf|zip) +”o’reilly”

    This uses the same idea but attempts to focus on directories that contain O’Reilly stuff. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than paying.

If you have any other interesting search suggestions, please post in the comments below.

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  • Michael Penney
    Is there a way to get it to search for a specific EBook?

    Thanks and cool stuff
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  • Interesting! I have been looking for this info for the last few hours. Keep us updated I would like to hear more!
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    Fonts. I need to search those high priced fonts.
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  • ashish
    electronic
  • Anonymous
    so how would u find like magazines on here?
  • Anonymous
    <ul id="quote">
    Seth wrote:
    What's so wrong with filetype:pdf?
    to find books on google use, filetype:pdf google</ul>

    Thanks :)
  • Anonymous
    Thankyou Great guys ( who is in Tech-recipes) !!
    you are all amazing !! Thanks again for great posting :D
  • Seth
    What's so wrong with filetype:pdf?
    to find books on google use, filetype:pdf google
  • Anonymous
    This isn't all that good a formula.

    First, Google ignores +s in queries. All search terms are included with an AND unless if you exclude them with -.

    I assume intitle:"index of" +("/ebooks"|"/book") is supposed to be intitle:("index of" (ebooks|book)). For one thing, the quotes are unnecessary around a single word. Secondly, Google ignores slashes. Finally, that's improperly formed anyway and matches any "ebooks" or "book" text in the page, thus matching any folder with some random "book.zip" within.

    As for +(chm|pdf|zip)... that's ridiculous. You might also want to read HTML, lit, doc, rtf, or txt files that come up. Don't limit your search by filetype! I don't even know what chm is! Instead, let's include a "last modified" in the query, to verify it's a directory listing.

    Final result:

    http://www.google.com/search?q=-inurl%3Ahtm+-inurl%3Ahtml+intitle%3A(%22index+of%22+(ebooks%7Cbook))+%22last+modified%22

    Feel free to improve on my suggestions.
  • rover3500
    I tried ur link,it just came back with :
    Your search - -inurl%3Ahtm -inurl%3Ahtml intitle%3A(%22index of%22 (ebooks%7Cbook)) %22last modified%22 - did not match any documents
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