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Distance, Online, Extension: eBooks

For online and extension students.

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eBook Resources

Adobe Digital Editions on your computer

Adobe Digital Editions Adobe Digital Editions

Read ebooks on your computer w/o Internet

  1. First create an Adobe ID https://accounts.adobe.com/
  2. Download and install Digital Editions Download
  3. Enter your Adobe ID
  4. Create an ProQuest Ebook Central or EBSCO ID.
    (I'd make them share the same username and password)
  5. Search for ebooks from ProQuest ebook Central or EBSCO, download and read them on your computer.
  6. ebooks will automatically delete when the checkout expires.

To download or not

Should I read online or download?

Click and read online, easy.

If you want to download...

  1. Create free Ebsco or ProQuest account
  2. Create free Adobe account
  3. Download and install Digital Editions
  4. Authorize Digital Editions
  5. Download your ebook

ProQuest Ebook Central

  1. ​Read online

or

  1. Signin to ProQuest ebook Central
  2. Install Adobe Digital Editions
  3. Download ebook
  4. Select 7 or 14 loan based on publisher availability
  5. Select EPUB or PDF
ebook central checkout

EBSCO ebooks

 
  1. Read online

or

  1. Create an EBSCO ID
  2. Install Adobe Digital Editions
  3. Download ebook
  4. Select 7 or 14 loan based on publisher availability
  5. Select PDF or EPUB
    (​Computer will only get PDF)
    (Your phone will only get EPUB)

EBSCO checkout

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