eBooks & eAudiobooks
Libby
Meet Libby. Instantly borrow eBooks and eAudiobooks from Overdrive with the Libby mobile app.
How it works:
- Check out up to ten titles at a time – titles can be returned early if needed.
- Titles expire on the due date, nothing to return, no late fees. The maximum lending period is 3 weeks.
- If all copies of a title are checked out, you can get on a wait list, and receive an email when it is available.
- Amazon Kindle support – use Overdrive to read eBooks on a traditional e-ink Kindle.
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cloudLibrary
Instantly borrow eBooks and eAudiobooks from our cloudLibrary collection. This service specializes in niche and children’s titles.
How it works:
- Check out up to five titles at a time – titles can be returned early if needed.
- Titles expire on the due date, nothing to return, no late fees. Lending Period is 3 weeks.
- If all copies of a title are checked out, you can get on a wait list, and receive an email when it is available.
- Titles can be renewed if there is no one on the wait list.
Comics Plus (Library Pass)
Instant access to thousands of digital comics, graphic novels, and manga.
The entire collection is always available, with no due dates or checkout limits.
hoopla
Instantly borrow digital movies, music, eBooks and more, 24/7 with your library card.
How it works:
- All titles are available instantly, there are no holds and no waiting.
- Limit 25 checkouts per month.
- Unlimited play of checked out items during lending period.
- Titles expire on the due date, nothing to return, no late fees.
- There are no renewals, but items may be immediately checked out again.
- Once an item has been borrowed, even if it is returned immediately, it will count against the 25 item limit per card.
Lending Periods:
- eAudiobooks & eBooks: 3 weeks
- Music: 1 week
- Movies and TV shows: 3 days
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Standard eBooks is a volunteer-driven effort to produce a collection of high quality, carefully formatted, accessible, open source, and free public domain ebooks that meet or exceed the quality of commercially produced ebooks. The text and cover art in our ebooks is already believed to be in the U.S. public domain, and Standard Ebooks dedicates its own work to the public domain, thus releasing the entirety of each ebook file into the public domain. All the ebooks we produce are distributed free of cost and free of U.S. copyright restrictions.
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