RBdigital
Check out your favorite audiobooks, eBooks, videos, magazines, and educational offerings. Streaming video services include award-winning comedies, documentaries, drama, animation, shorts, classic TV, British TV and film, Broadway shows and musicals, Spanish telenovelas and movies, and even the Great Courses.
You can check out up to 4 downloadable items at a time, for up to 14 days, or one video streaming channel - unlimited viewing for 7 days.
RBdigital is compatible with all popular listening devices and mobile apps are available for iOS, Android™, Kindle Fire, and Nook (Color, Tablet, HD/HD+).
Overdrive eBooks and eAudiobooks
Downloadable audiobooks and eBooks that you can read on your computer or electronic device including Nook, Kindle,and iPad. Mobile apps available for most popular devices.
Our collection has over 12,000 eBooks for adults, teens, and kids, and over 4000 audiobooks for all ages.
Freading eBooks
We now have another source for downloadable eBooks. Over 20,000 titles are available from a variety of small and independent publishers, as well as all the Lonely Planet travel guides, the SparkNotes study guides and a large selection of cookbooks. New titles are added weekly.
All titles are always available, so there is never any waiting for a title.
You can download up to 3 books each week, for a checkout period of 2 weeks.
You need to install Adobe Digital Editions software before downloading books.
Freading eBooks can be read on most mobile devices, including tablets, smartphones, and NOOKs, Sony Readers, and Kobo Readers. Freading eBooks are compatible with Kindle Fire, but not Kindle e-ink readers. Android and Apple mobile apps are available.
RBdigital magazines
Full color, interactive digital magazines for your enjoyment. Browse from our collection of popular titles with no holds, no checkout periods, and no limit to the number of magazines you can download.
Apps are available for most mobile devices and computers.
Freegal Music MP3s
Freegal is a downloadable music service that offers access to about 3 million songs, including Sony Music’s catalog of legendary artists.
The collection is comprised of music and spoken word files from over 10,000 labels with music that originates in over 60 countries, as well as hundreds of authentic famous speeches, audiobooks, standup comedy, and radio plays.
You are allowed three free downloads per week, and three hours of streaming a day. Mobile apps available for Apple and Android devices.
Ebsco eBooks
Access four different collections with thousands of ebooks for K-12 students and educators. Find nonfiction titles covering all subjects areas as well as fiction titles.
Project Gutenberg public domain ebooks
Project Gutenberg offers over 46,000 free ebooks of works which are in the public domain (that is, no longer under copyright). Choose among epub books, Kindle books, PDF books, and even audio books in some cases; download them or read them online. The link provided is for the Most Downloaded Books page. There is also a mobile site.
There are three portions of the Project Gutenberg Library, basically described as:
- Light Literature; such as Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, Peter Pan, Aesop's Fables, etc.
- Heavy Literature; such as the Bible or other religious documents, Shakespeare, Moby Dick, Paradise Lost, etc.
- References; such as Roget's Thesaurus, almanacs, and a set of encyclopedia, dictionaries, etc.
