LibGuides: Elementary Education: eBooks

Finding eBooks

How do I find an eBook?

eBooks are available through several sources. They are available for free and immediately.

If you want to download an e-book to a portable reader (instead of reading it online), the portable reader must be compatible with Adobe Digital Editions.
Follow this link if you want to download an EBSCO eBook to a Kindle Fire.
EBSCO also provides How to Print, E-mail or Save EBSCO eBooks Pages as a PDF.

Search our library catalog

Internet Archive - Books
There are over 1,570,329 books and other texts available free at Internet Archive.
Google Books
Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books.
Open Library
The ultimate goal of the Open Library is to make all the published works of humankind available to everyone in the world.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.
ManyBooks
Lots of ebooks. 100% free. ManyBooks has more than 50,000 free ebooks waiting to be discovered.

Log in to MyNPC;

Click on the "My Courses" link
At the right side of the screen you will see a section called "Other Important Information."
Beneath that you will see "Library Information," and further down you must click on the link to the "Passwords for Access to the Library Databases"

You will need these credentials to access eBooks as well as databases.

Public patrons can access on-site ONLY in library with purchase of day-pass available through the campus office.

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