E-Readers like the Nook and the Sony Reader automatically give you access to the thousands of books in Google's online library. But for devices like the Kindle, you need to work around a few obstacles before you can gain access.

The trick is to check out a program called Calibre. Itl converts your Google Book downloads to a format any e-reader can recognize.

It'll even send it to your device automatically.

Download a book from Google Books. They have a great selection of classics in the public domain

Download and install Calibre

Open Calibre and choose where you want your converted books to save

Choose your e-reader. We'll go with the Kindle for this example

Enter your Kindle E-mail and link to your Gmail account

Click the "add book" icon and select the Google Book from the folder you saved it to earlier

Highlight the book in the list and click the "convert book" icon

Change any metadata for the book such as title and author. Then click ok and wait for the book to convert

Right click the book in your list and click "Send to Device," then "Send to Main Memory." Your Kindle will receive the file soon.

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