Getting Started with eBooks: Home

Patrons of man Alaska Libraries can check out eBooks, audiobooks on many different topics. For work-related books, do a search on your general topic, then limit results to nonfiction. For example, accounting, environmental sciences, computer technology, etc.

Offers more than 5,000 free pdf books on science including polar studies, forestry, climate, earthquakes, ecology, and geography.

This catalog contains records for and links to Federal Government digital publications that are formatted specifically to be used with an eBook device or eBook reader software. GPO archives free eBook files found on public Federal Government websites and provides permanent public access to the content.

This site has books, book chapters and articles designed to share research and works by UA faculty, students, and staff.

Patrons of some Alaska Libraries can check out eBooks, audiobooks and music in formats for nearly all devices from ListenAlaska. If you live in an area without a library, you may be able to gain access to ListenAlaska through Regional Services.

“Baen Books is now making available — for free — a number of its titles in electronic format.”

Includes about 3 million classic and "modern" books in BookReader, PDF and ePub formats (and Daisy for the print disabled). The classic collection offers even more formats. Users must set up a free account. Only one patron can check out a book at a time from the modern collection.

Offers over 45,000 free ePub and Kindle books, including literature, reference works, and more. Also includes some human read audiobooks and computer-generated audiobooks.

Offers over 43,000 free eBooks from Indie authors and publishers.

eBooks produced by NASA on aeronautics, NASA history, science and the International Space Station.