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And Google Books can give helpful access to books which might be out of print or otherwise unavailable.

But how can you capture text in Google Books Any kind of download or copy and paste is disabled, but it is a real pain to have to re-type quotations, even though such use presents no breach of copyright, and there is always the danger of errors creeping in.

There is an easy way to do it that, when set up, takes a few seconds.

Make sure the text you want is showing in unbroken form in your window on Google Books.

Use screen capture to grab a picture of the section of text you are interested in.

On a Mac this is really easy using keystrokes Command-Shift-4; this gives you cross-hairs to click and drag over the area you want to capture.

This creates a.png file on your desktop.

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Download a PDF-to-text converter.

Open PDF OCR and drag the screen shot onto the conversion window.

The application seems happy to handle.png files as well as.pdf files.

And viol You have a text file with the text from the Google Book which you can paste into any other document.

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That will open a new window in your browser where the text will have been used for a search.

Just go to the search field, triple click to highlight the text there, copy and paste into whatever document you want.

You can right-click within the text and then click the Save Page As function, but all that gets you is the outer box for Google Books, not any of the magazine text.

Am I missing something Oh, and FYI, Ian: Your next-to-last paragraph should say voila and not viola unless you intended to cue a stringed instrument.

However it is possible to search the book for text, so Google must have created in electronic form.

Your method is the obvious method for copying a small amount of text, but I dont really want to create a screenshot of every page.

Is there a way of grabbing all pages at once Or purchasing it as ebook even though it is only available as a print book.

That would breach copyright and also reduce essential sales income from print books.

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