Many Books.net
International Children’s Digital Library
National Academies Press
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Princeton Theological Commons
Loebolus – Loeb’s Classical library titles available in the public domain that are available as PDFs.
Wesleyan-Holiness Digital Library
Association of Christian Librarians Virtual Theological Library Project
Many of the electronic books available in our online catalog are available for download to your computer! Once you have selected a title and downloaded it, it will be available to view for a set period of time. Usually this will be 7 days. To access these items, you must have:
Young Library ebooks can also be downloaded to your tablets! You will need a reader program such as Bluefire Reader. You must download this to your tablet first before downloading the ebook offline.
Remember when you download an ebook from our catalog, it will download directly to the device you are using.
Now you are ready to search for a book in our catalog. Remember you can select the material type on our advanced search screen.
Once you have selected a title that you would like to checkout:
Click on the title of the book
Click on “Click here to view this resource online”.
Once the screen opens, if the book is able to be downloaded, you will see “Download this eBook (offline)”
Once you have clicked on “Download this eBook” you will see a screen that asks you to sign in to your “My EBSCOhost” account. If you do not have a “My EBSCOhost” folder account, you can follow this video to create your account:
(“My EBSCOhost Folder – Tutorial.” YouTube, YouTube, 24 May 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBbqqVqPQvE.)
Select the checkout period in days from the dropdown menu
Click on Checkout & Download
Click on Open to access your book
Use the arrows on the bottom right of the page to navigate through the pages.
Your book will now stay checked out in your folder if you are using your personal computer. It will be in your reader if you are using a mobile device.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Young Library at 474-3240.
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Using Librivox to find free audiobooks of classic books
Librivox.org is a site of free audiobooks that are available in the public domain. This means that they are not under copyright restrictions.
If you use material from a book in Librivox, you must create a citation for it. While it is free to read, it is not your original work, therefore, it must be cited.
Classic books can be difficult to read and listening to a book may be more helpful.
Librivox audiobooks are read by real people. They are all volunteers. This is not a computer voice.
Librivox does have an app available to use. You can download the app even to your phone.
Librivox books can be downloaded using the app so you are not streaming the content.
Below you will find a few helpful hints in using Librivox.
To find a book:
If you need any assistance, please contact the library:
