Camellia Net

FREE E- BOOKS

Jacksonville Public Library is now a member of Camellia Net - a website that allows you to checkout and download…

Adobe EPUB eBooks
Adobe PDF eBooks
OverDrive WMA Audiobooks
OverDrive MP3 Audiobooks
OverDrive Music
KINDLE e-books

All you need to checkout and download to a computer or supported mobile device is…

1. A valid library card

2. Internet access

3. A computer or device that meets the system requirements for the type(s) of materials you wish to download --click here for a list of supported devices

**KINDLE e-books now available to checkout!

4. Free software for the computer or device on which you wish to use the materials available at this site

Click here to get started

A guided tour of this service is available…

Click here to take a guided tour of this service.
You must have the free Adobe Flash® Player installed to view the guided tour. **Click here to review system requirements and download Adobe Flash Player.

Click here for more imformation on borrowing materials from Camellia Net

Click here for interactive My Help service

Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.org) - The original site for free online e-books, mostly classics, which will work with any e-reader.

Google Books (books.google.com) - This site allows preview and full view of millions of books and magazines. Download full view titles in PDF and EPUB.

Open Library (openlibrary.org) - This site from the Internet Archive, offers e-books to download in multiple formats, including MOBI/send to Kindle.

ManyBooks.net (www.manybooks.net) - This is an easy-to-search collection of free ebooks, downloadable in many formats.

Feedbooks.com (www.feedbooks.com ) - This site offers free public domain books, both old enough to have droppped out of copyright and new works by authors hoping to get noticed.

Munseys.com (munseys.com) - This site has some classics, but mainly seems to specialize in old adventure, science fiction, and detective pulp fiction. Books are available in all e-reader formats.

Great Books Online (www.bartleby.com ) - This site from Bartleby.com publishes the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge.

InkMesh (inkmesh.com) - This is a site that searches more than 30 online sources for free e-books. You can search by title or author.

Baen Books (www.baen.com/library) - A company that publishes science fiction and fantasy novels offers a number of their titles, including those by popular authors, as a free download.

The Online Books Page (digital.library.upenn.edu/books) - The University of Pennsylvania offers hundreds of thousands of online books freely readable on the internet.

eBookFling (ebookfling.com) - This is a site to lend your e-books to other Nook and Kindle users across the nation. You keep ownership of your books and you can borrow books from others.

NetGalley (netgalley.com) - This site features more than 30 categories from 66 publishers. They currently do not support the Kindle, but promise they are working on it; keep checking their site for updates.

There are also blogs that discuss news, reviews, and opinions on all things e-books. Two great blogs to check out are The Digital Reader (the-digital-reader.com) and Ebookanoid (ebookanoid.com).