eBranch Blog

March 05, 2008

Celebrate Read an E-Book Week

March 2nd to March 8th is Read an Ebook Week! Epublishers Weekly, a blog devoted to ebooks, posted a list of 30 benefits of ebooks this week. Here are a few highlights from the list:

1) Ebooks promote reading.

2) Ebooks are good for the environment.

3) Ebooks are easily updateable, for correcting errors and adding information.

4) Ebooks make reading accessible to persons with disabilities.

5) Ebooks (in the form of digital audio books) free you to do other activities while you are listening.

Did you know HCPL has multiple ways for you to access ebooks? They are all listed in the eBooks section of our Databases page.

HCPL Digital Media Catalog allows you to check out and download eAudio books, eBooks, and music. There are hundreds of popular titles available. Please see our Quick Start Guide to find out how to get started.

NetLibrary eBooks lets you search through thousands of books online and then read one right on your computer screen. Some titles allow downloading. See our NetLibrary Help page to find out more about how to use this service.

Safari Books Online is the premier source for technical ebooks for programmers and IT professionals. Please note that there is a limit of five simultaneous users for this resource.

Tumblebooks offers electronic books for children.

Check out some of our ebooks! Below are the top 10 most checked out titles in HCPL's collection:

1) Eloisa James. Duchess in Love - 73 checkouts

2) Natalie Haughton. 365 Easy One-Dish Meals - 69 checkouts

3) Lynsay Sands. A Bite to Remember - 68 checkouts

4) Kinley MacGregor. Born in Sin - 67 checkouts

5) Lori Foster, Erin McCarthy and Amy Garvey. Bad Boys of Summer - 65 checkouts

6) Lynsay Sands. A Quick Bite - 65 checkouts

7) Lori Foster, Erin McCarthy and Helenkay Dimon. When Good Things Happen To Bad Boys - 65 checkouts

8) Julia Quinn. Brighter Than the Sun - 63 checkouts

9) Gena Showalter. The Nymph King - 61 checkouts

10) Gena Showalter. Gena Showalter Bundle (three novels) - 61 checkouts

Our eAudio books are also very popular - below are the top five most checked out eAudio books:

1) Nicholas Boothman. How To Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less - 113 checkouts

2) James Patterson, Maxine Paetro, and Carolyn McCormick. 5th Horseman (unabridged) - 83 checkouts

3) Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter, and Stephen Hoye. Rich Dad's® Rich Dad, Poor Dad - 82 checkouts

4) Christopher Paolini and Gerald Doyle. Eragon (unabridged) - 82 checkouts

5) James Patterson and Suzanne Toren. 1st to Die (unabridged) - 81 checkouts