Visit our E-Books & Downloadables [1] page for a complete and up-to-date list of all our online offerings!
Browse, checkout and download e-books using your Library card 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! Check out our downloadable collections to find fiction, nonfiction, language learning, and other titles for all ages.
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Go to the OverDrive Digital Library » [3] (Library card required)
The OverDrive Digital Library has downloadable e-books and audiobooks for both Windows and Mac computers, as well as portable devices such as e-readers, iPhones, and more. Read our OverDrive FAQ... [4]
OverDrive is getting ready to make some changes to our Digital Library to make it easier and more convenient! Here's a video [5] with a sneak peak of what's coming.
Note: Due to legal issues, you MAY NOT download e-books using a Library public computer, but are free to use your own device.
These sites offer freely available ebook downloads that never expire and don’t count against your library checkout limit.
Find and view over 7,000 eBooks online in the EBSCOhost eBook Collection [9]. It contains eBooks that can be viewed online but not downloaded - no e-reader needed! (Library card required)
Read narrated children's books online, complete with sound and moving images, using TumbleBooks [10].
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/downloadables
[2] http://www.kclibrary.org/tutorials-guides/download-ebooks
[3] http://kclibrary.lib.overdrive.com/
[4] http://www.kclibrary.org/ebooks/overdrive
[5] http://youtu.be/ncRTkQkgZcU
[6] http://openlibrary.org/
[7] http://www.gutenberg.org/
[8] http://www.feedbooks.com/publicdomain
[9] http://proxy.kclibrary.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=nlebk
[10] http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/auto_login.asp?U=kansascitypl&P=libra