| Free eBooks & Downloadable Audio Books |
| Electronic versions of printed books and audio books can be viewed or listened to on a computer or portable device. The St. Charles City-County Library District’s eMedia collection is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A valid St. Charles City-County Library District card is required to check out items. eMedia collections can be accessed by using the links below and through author, title, subject, or material browsing searches in the Library Catalog. |
| Free Downloadable Audio Books |
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| Popular, classic, fiction & nonfiction books that adults, teens & kids want to listen to on their portable players, car radio, or home computer are available free from OverDrive. These audio books can be downloaded to your PC, burned to a CD (if permitted), or transferred to a supported portable device such as a MP3 player including iPod, Zune and others. Downloadable audio books may be downloaded to your computer at home or to your laptop using the Wi-Fi service offered at selected library branches. Windows Media Player and OverDrive Media Console are needed to download audio books. This software is available to download for free when you check out your first book. |
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| St. Charles City-County Library District cardholders have access to more than 7,300 eBook titles any time from anywhere. |
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| The OverDrive collection includes nearly 300 popular, classic, fiction (including Harlequin) and nonfiction titles. Adobe PDF eBooks are downloadable to Windows PC's and Macs. Books are checked out for two weeks and are either automatically checked back in after two weeks, or may be returned earlier. Either Adobe Digital Editions or Adobe Reader 7 is necessary to download an eBook. Both are available for free when you download your first book. | |
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| The NetLibrary collection includes over 7,000 research & reference tools, some classics and Cliff Notes. Titles are checked out to one customer at a time for four hours. Search the text of every book, make & save an electronic list of favorites and electronic notes. |
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03/23/09 - jfb