![]() Read more: 10 ways to read books online for free That's because, just like at the actual library, there are limited numbers of each title available for checkout. What kinds of books can you expect to find? Here's the rub: Just like at the actual library, the selection may be somewhat limited, and you may have to wait to check out the book(s) you want. OverDrive provides access to e-books and audiobooks, while Hoopla adds music, comics, movies and TV shows to the mix. You'll use your library card to sign in or create an account. It might be called "eLibrary" or "Downloads" or something else entirely, but it should lead you to at least one of the two major lending services: Hoopla Digital and OverDrive (which also goes by its newer app name, Libby). ![]() Next you'll want to visit your library's web site and look for something pertaining to e-books. ![]() (In the market for a reader? Woot currently has the 2016 Kindle for $50.) A compatible device: iPhone, iPad, Android phone/tablet, Kindle reader, Kobo reader.Read more: How to get free digital magazines from your library Most libraries have partnerships with one or more digital-lending services, meaning you can borrow, well, a library's worth of reading material, all from the comfort of your PC, phone or tablet. To be clear, I'm talking about the e-book - the same exact one that would cost me $15 on Amazon. Price to borrow it from my public library: $0. Price for the Kindle edition of Ron Chernow's superb book: $15. For example, last year I fell in love with Hamilton, the musical, and so decided to read Hamilton, the biography. Also has comprehensive list of major sources and indexes of free online texts worldwide.Is your public library closed due to coronavirus concerns? Good news: You may be able to check out reading material electronically. University of Pennsylvania Online Indexes more than 3 million free books on the internet.Project Gutenberg Access to over 60,000 free books to download to your PC, e-reader or mobile device.Internet Archive Text Archive Home to more than a million free texts.Search the Public Collections for freely available full text items. Many of the older items are publicly-accessible. HathiTrust Digital Library A growing database of digitised materials from major US libraries.Select ‘Full View’ in the advanced search option if you are only interested in e-books you can view in their entirety. Google Books Can, in some cases, be used to view online either the complete text or limited extracts from books.Gallica Over a million books, journals, manuscripts and images, mostly in French, most published before 1900, all free, digitised by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.Biodiversity Heritage Library The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives.Run jointly by the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York.ĭigitised out of copyright books and archives White Rose University Press A small open access digital publisher of peer-reviewed academic journals and books, publishing across a wide range of academic disciplines.University of California eScholarship Editions Includes over 700 readily available books from academic presses.Punctum Books Open access e-books published by punctum books, an open access, independent publisher.Project Muse Open Access E-books Project MUSE offers open access (OA) books and digital humanities works from several distinguished university presses, scholarly societies, and independent not-for-profit academic publishers.Open Book Publishers Freely available e-books to read online, and available to University of Reading members to download.OAPEN OAPEN is an aggregator of peer-reviewed academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences from a number of different European publishers.JSTOR Open Access E-books A collection of monographs from a selection of university press publishers.Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) A service which harvests details of academic and mainly peer-reviewed books published on open access.ArchaeoPress Open access e-books published by ArchaeoPress, an Oxford-based publisher specialising in scholarly books and journals in the field of archaeology and related heritage subjects.Many providers enable you to convert their e-books into formats that can be read on e-readers. On this page you will find links to selected providers of free online books. This may be through the digitisation of out of copyright books, such as via Project Gutenberg, or reputable academic publishers providing 'Open Access' e-books for more recently published works. More and more e-books are being made available for free online.
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