Downloadable eAudiobooks.

Hackley Public Library offers downloadable eAudiobooks through NetLibrary and Overdrive to Hackley Library card holders.

Netlibrary:  First, go to Hackley Public Library (you must be in the building) and set up an account by going to http://www.netlibrary.com/ and clicking on Create an Account (in the upper right hand corner). Fill in the fields, then click on "Create Account". Now that your account is created, you can search for titles from home through the online catalog. To browse all available titles, do an author search of "NetLibrary, Inc." When you find a title you like, click on the full record, then on the link in the "Connect to" box. Be sure to log in to NetLibrary by clicking on the LOG IN button in the upper left hand corner. Then, click on "download this eAudiobook" and follow the directions on the next screen. Once the title is on your computer, double click it to open up your media player. You can listen to it through your computer, or sync it to your MP3 player. Be sure to follow the directions for your media player and MP3 player.

Overdrive  To use Overdrive, either find a book in the library's catalog, or go directly to the Overdrive site.  You do not need to register in the library, but you will need to have your library card handy.  You will also need to download the Overdrive Media Console before downloading a book.  Find a book, follow the directions, and happy reading!  Overdrive does have a very nice slide presentation on their product.  Look for it under Help.

Ebooks:

•      Best Places to Get Free Books(LIB)
• 20 Best places to download e-books (LIB)
• 100 Useful links for ebook lovers
• Search E-Books search the web for e-books. (LII)
• Search for e-books From Librarian chick. Search for free audio, text, and e-books. (LIB)
• AddAll Ebook Meta search 30+ ebook sites with one click
• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century "an online collection of 52 full-text works" from the New York Public Library.
• Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts
• AskSam " browse these online or download and read them on your computer with the free AskSam reader." (RB)
• ClassicBookshelf.com e-texts with a difference...this site lets the reader change the display.
• The Arabian Nights and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam this site has a variety of translations of both texts. (SR)
• Classic Reader Over 600 books and 900 short stories presented in unabridged versions that one can "can read, search, and annotate." (LII)
• Digital Book Index A database of over 60,000 fiction and nonfiction e-books from over 1,800 publishers. (LII)
• Domesday Book "This site has been set up to enable visitors to find out the history of the Domesday Book and to give an insight into life at the time of its compilation [the eleventh century]. This site does not contain all the information contained in the original text, however does include a list of every settlement existing in 1086." (LII)
• E-library of literature a modest collection of e-texts.
• Fogged Clarity  An online art review magazine, includes fiction, poetry, and music reviews.
• Electronic Literature Directory "comprehensive directory of work" in the field of electronic literature
• Wright American Fiction (1851-1875) a "collection of American fiction that attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875." From Indiana University (SR)
• E-Book Archive "Find essays, manuscripts, and tons of e-books here"
• LoudLit.org "“LoudLit.org is committed to delivering public domain literature paired with high quality audio performances. We pair together great literature and accompanying audio.” " (IRN)
• On line Texts from the Internet Public Library.
• Open Library  "One webpage for every book ever published"
• Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature from the Library of the University of Virginia. (LII)
• Author's House Books that are in the public domain.
• Google Books  "A searchable archive of the full texts of books scanned from publishers and libraries. The site includes a discussion of what portions of materials are available for books that may still be under copyright protection: "you'll only see snippets of text directly around your search term. This snippet view is designed to help users ... make a decision about whether to go find a physical copy of the book.""(LII)
• Collection of Science Fiction/alternate history books online (RB)
• The Harvard Classics and Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, 1909-1917 Bartleby.com has placed the entire set online for the general public (SR)
• Making of America Collection This site has a large collection of late-nineteenth-century American books and journals that can be read online.
• Manybooks.net "The staff members at Manybooks.net have adapted the e-texts created by the Project Gutenberg DVD and placed them online in a host of formats, including pdf, eReader, and as Palm document files. Visitors can begin by browsing by author, title, category, or  language." (SR)
• MemoWare ebooks in a variety of formats, including PDAs.
• On-Line Books Page "The site only indexes books (all located at other sites) that are full text, free, and not copyrighted."
• Online Literary Criticism Collection
• Open Culture Audiobook Podcast Collection - Free Audiobooks (WIL)
• Open Library "aims to reproduce the experience of reading a book online." All the books at this site are in the public domain. (DS)
• Page by Page public domain books online. (LII)
• Project Gutenberg Full text of many books that are no longer copyrighted.
• Penn State University Electronic Classics
• Planet PDF: Free PDF eBooks
• Read Print.com "A warm welcome to Read Print, your free online library. Our  website offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. To find the book you desire to read, start by looking through the author index."
• Simiply Audiobooks this site has some free downloadable eaudiobooks.
• Wiki Books online books that anyone can edit. (RB)
• Podio Books "Free serialized audio books, delivered on your schedule." (RB)     

 Eaudioboooks:

• AudioBooksForFree MP3, iPOD and DVD audiobooks (adventures, detectives, horrors, classics, children, non-fictions, philosophy, etc.) for you to download and enjoy.
• Project Gutenberg Audio Books
• LibriVox "provides totally free audiobooks from the public domain."
• Free Classic Audiobooks Available in MP3 and M4B for iPod.
• Librophile:  search for free e-audio, and e-books.
• netLibrary free and not free on-line books and eAudioBooks. Free books can be downloaded.
• Podiobooks “The term podiobook was coined by Evo Terra to describe serialized audiobooks which are distributed via RSS, much like a podcast. Listeners to Podiobooks.com can choose to receive the episodes of their books via an RSS feed or by listening to episodes by directly downloading episodes from this site. Some listeners keep the audio files on their computers, some transfer the book to CD, but most transfer the file on to their MP3 player so they can listen no matter where they are.”
• Universal Digital Library Search for digital books.