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Digital Downloads

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	Digital Media Catalog, powered by OverDrive With a valid library card, you can check out and download audiobooks, eBooks, and music anytime, anywhere. Access the Digital Media Catalog
	Project Gutenberg eBooks Check out and download free public domain titles! Choose from over 15,000 titles that never expire and don’t count against your library checkout limit! Access Project Gutenberg eBooks
	EBSCO eBooks Download and transfer select full-text scholarly, reference or professional eBooks to mobile devices. You will need Adobe Digital Editions and you will need to create a My EBSCOhost folder account to download eBooks. All titles may also be viewed online. Access EBSCO eBooks

Streaming Media


	AccessVideo, Videos on Demand A comprehensive streaming video resource offering a broad variety of documentary, educational, cultural, and instructional programming, including content from BBC, PBS, ABC News, CNBC, Biography, History Channel, National Geographic, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Masterpiece Theater and hundreds more. Videos can be viewed on PCs, Macs, iPads, smart phones, or any other Internet-enabled device. Click here to browse the collection
	National Jukebox, by the Library of Congress At launch, the Jukebox includes more than 10,000 historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. Jukebox allows users to stream acoustical recordings. Access the National Jukebox

Other Sources for Downloading Free eBooks

Try one of these online services that offer 1000s of free eBooks and some audiobooks. Items can be downloaded to devices. The items included on these sites are not part of the Irving Public Library collection and each site requires a free account. Irving Public Library does not provide customer service support for the following outside services.
	BookRix Over 95,000 new books written by the community’s 371,000 members are available on BookRix for free. They also offer foreign language and audiobooks. Access BookRix
	ManyBooks.net Over 29,000 free eBooks are available for the Kindle, Nook, iPad and most other eReaders. This service includes many classics, as well as offering a wide range of genres, both fiction and non-fiction as well as books in many other languages. Access ManyBooks.net
	Free-eBooks.net A combination of older titles as well as brand new books written by some of its 900,000 members. The free membership allows 5 eBook downloads per month which are available in HTML, pdf, and txt formats as well as Mobile eReader Formats for Kindle, Sony, iPad, iPhone, and Nook devices. Access Free-eBooks.net

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Library eBooks for Amazon Kindle

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	For help transferring an eBook to your mobile device click here. To view only eBooks that can be transferred to your mobile device, click on the Advanced Search link and check the box next to Download Available.