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Maryland’s Digital eLibrary Consortium OverDrive offers both popular fiction and non-fiction eBooks and audiobooks. With your FCPL library card, check out up to 6 OverDrive ebooks for up to 3 weeks at a time. You can place holds on up to 6 materials already checked out.
Amazon Kindles are now compatible with OverDrive library eBooks.
FCPL Downloadable eBook Basics
This one-page sheet gives basic information about our ebooks and tells you how to get started and where to go for help.
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| NOOK | Blackberry | MP3 players |
| Sony Reader | iPhone/iPad/iPod touch | Windows |
| eBook Readers | Windows Phone | Mac |
Safari Books Online
Search and read the full text of thousands of books in the Safari Tech Books collection about technology, career, and finance topics like running a photography business, developing iPhone apps, personal investing, and studying for the Project Management Professional exam. Technology professionals will find new titles from many of their favorite programming and software series like The Missing Manual, O'Reilly, Sams Teach Yourself, John Wiley & Sons, and Packt Publishing.
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Amazon.com: Free Kindle eBooks in the public domain
Amazon.com: Free Kindle eBooks not in the public domain
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Feedbooks
In addition to linking to free historical public domain books, Feedbooks provides access to free original new books in EPUB, Mobipocket, and PDF format
Google eBooks "Best of the Free"
Browse some of the most popular public domain ebooks, or search thousands of public domain books you can download in PDF and/or EPUB format.
ManyBooks.net
Access to free text and audio downloads of thousands of ebooks in many formats for smartphones, ereaders, and media players.
Project Gutenberg
Offers many thousands of free ebooks in a variety of formats including HTML, plain text, EPUB, Mobipocket, and more.