How Can I Enable the Selecting Tool in Google Books?

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In Google Books, users often encounter difficulties with the selection tool, particularly when viewing PDF files. The default hand cursor indicates that text selection is not available, primarily because the book pages are rendered as images with copy restrictions enabled through JavaScript. As a workaround, users can take screenshots of the content they wish to capture, as direct copying and pasting of text is not possible in these instances.
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Hi, When I am in the Google Books I cannot find selecting tool as there is pdf files but there is a hand. But with that hand I cannot copy and paste a phrase. Under what setting I can find selecting tool or there is no selecting tool.

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mech-eng said:
Hi, When I am in the Google Books I cannot find selecting tool as there is pdf files but there is a hand. But with that hand I cannot copy and paste a phrase. Under what setting I can find selecting tool or there is no selecting tool.

Have nice day
It looks like the book pages are images that have copying turned off in the page's javascript. About the only thing you can do is to capture screenshots and save those as images.
 
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