Google Book Downloader Changelog

What's new in Google Book Downloader 0.6.9 Build 33532 Beta

Sep 19, 2009
  • Fixed application crash.

New in Google Book Downloader 0.6.0 Build 32118 Beta (Aug 18, 2009)

  • Added intercepting Google captchas.
  • Added autosave.
  • Added discovering and exporting hidden pages.
  • Reverted quality setting to version alpha8.
  • Added log filtering and limited its visible part to 200 lines.
  • Switched to .com from .pl Google servers.
  • Fixed minor bugs.

New in Google Book Downloader 0.1.0 Alpha8 (Mar 30, 2009)

  • Fixed a bug which blocked using GBD;
  • Added missing pages in exported PDFs;
  • Fixed IMA bug ("image not available");
  • Added auto banning web proxies;
  • Changed default PDF generator to iTextSharp (faster and better quality);
  • Added opportunity to specify web proxy location to download from (some books can only be downloaded in US);

New in Google Book Downloader 0.1.0 Alpha6 (Jan 26, 2009)

  • Improved a memory usage (but it still requires improvements);
  • Added a custom option window before download an entire book to choose a desired resolution (if user press the ellipsis button);
  • Fixed "Save selected..." button.
  • Fixed some minore bugs;

New in Google Book Downloader 0.1.0 Alpha5 (Jan 20, 2009)

  • Added asynchronous downloading algorithm.
  • Added a file system transient storage in options for keeping downloaded images to save memory (PDF saving is still very consuming).
  • Added an proxy ranking system.
  • Added the opportunity to download a book with another but predefined resolution (in next version user choose desired resolution).
  • Added the opportunity to see which pages will not be downloaded (missing pages).
  • This version as previous can only download books marked as full view or restricted view (here some pages can be omitted).
  • This version changed a format of temporary saved file. This files won't be opened.
  • This version requires (in order to use webproxies) import proxies via Tools|Connection|Import|Import from ... .
  • This version ranks webproxies, so it can take a while when the app will learn to use appriopriate, more reliable proxies.
  • This version is still in alpha stage so it has some bugs.

New in Google Book Downloader 0.1.0 Alpha2 (Nov 5, 2008)

  • Fixed some minor bugs.