e-Read with Calvert Library
Now there are two ways to enjoy free audio or ebooks:
1. Download ebooks and audio books onto your own device.
Need Help?
- Video for how to load to your own Kindle
- Video for how to load to your own NOOK or similar device
- Video for how to load to your own iPad/iPod
- Written instructions for iPad/iPod
- Written instructions for NOOK
- Written instructions for Kindle/Kindle Fire
- Flowchart for Kindle
* Disappointed that the title you were looking for isn't in our ebook catalog? Sadly, unlike a regular person, a library cannot pay Amazon or Barnes & Noble for an eBook and then lend it out to people. We can buy a printed book from these companies, stick it on the shelf, and lend it out--but digital content is treated differently by the publishers and the companies who manage digital content licensing. We desperately want to offer you these eBooks. But the companies won't let us. As your library, we commit to continuing advocacy for change in these policies.
The following publishers currently refuse to sell or license eBooks to libraries. Feel free to let them know how you feel about their decisions.
2. Check out a NookCOLOR or Kindle from the library
Other library ebooks available on your computer
TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of TumbleBooks – animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by adding animation, sound, music and narration to existing picture books in order to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you.
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a collection of encyclopedias and reference books. You can access them online 24/7. Titles include:
- American Decades Primary Sources
- Ancient Civilizations Reference Library
- Business Plans Handbook
- Career Information Center
- Encyclopedia of Small Business
- Encyclopedia of Small Business
- Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law
- Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
- Geo-Data: The World Geographical Encyclopedia
- McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
- Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans: A Guide to Education-Related Financial Aid Programs for Students and Professionals
- Witchcraft in America