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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