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eBooks & eAudio

BPL Download Centre

BPL Download Centre provides 24/7 access to thousands of downloadable ebooks and eaudiobooks to many types of devices. Many titles are both PC and MAC compatible.

Ebooks are available in both EPUB and Adobe PDF formats and are downloadable to computers and many portable devices including Kobo, Sony Reader, IPhone, IPad, Blackberry and many others.

Eaudiobooks are available in both WMA and MP3 formats and are downloadable to computers and may be transferred to many MP3 players, IPods, IPads and many other portable devices. In addition a mobile version of Overdrive Media Console is available for many popular devices which allow customers to download directly to their device.

Please note that materials available through this service cannot be downloaded to computers located in the library.

You must have a valid Burlington Public Library card to use the BPL Download Centre.

 

Tumble Books

TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of TumbleBooks – animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by adding animation, sound, music and narration to existing picture books in order to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you.

EBSCO
Available in other languages
EBSCO
Available in other languages

eBook Quick Tips

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If you:

  • want to download an eBook from the library
  • are thinking about buying your own eBook reader

With a library card you can borrow eBooks and eAudiobooks from the BPL Download Centre, Tumble Books and EBSCOhost.

These quick tips provide what you need to know about downloading eBooks from the Download Centre.

Borrow eBooks from the library

Using the Download Centre, you can load eBooks to your computer, then transfer them to your portable reading device or use the OverDrive Media Console app to download eBooks directly to various devices.

First things first

Whatever reader or device you are using, you first need to find out if your reader/device is compatible with the library's Download Centre (powered by OverDrive).

If it is compatible, then you need to set up an Adobe Digital Editions account.

Step-by-step printable instructions on how to download library eBooks to:

Apple iPad,iPhone, iPodTouch

BlackBerry PlayBook

Kobo Touch eReader

Kobo Vox eReader

NOOK Simple Touch eReader

Sony Reader
 

More on eReaders & eBooks

Freegal free tunes

Now you have hundreds of thousands of FREE downloadable songs, right at your fingertips! Log-in now

freegal bannerIntroducing Freegal, a new downloadable music service from the library.

All you need is a Burlington Public Library card and your PIN, to access the Sony Music Entertainment catalogue. You don't need to download software to use it and you won't have any digital rights management (DRM) issues to deal with.
 

Using Freegal is easy!

  • Log-in to Freegal using your BPL card and PIN (but not your catalogue username).
     
  • Choose a song from the database, and click on Download.
     
  • Select Save in the window that pops up on your screen. This saves the file onto your computer (just like when you download an attachment from an email).

  • If using a library computer to download, you must save it onto a USB key, so you don't lose it.


A few things you need to know

  • Limit of 3 downloads/week per library card
     
  • There is a Freegal app for Apple and Android devices.

  • Downloaded music on a personal computer can be transferred using a connection wire from a PC to a mobile device or MP3 player.

  • Tablets without an app can log-in and use the Freegal website easily—simply download directly onto your tablet. 
  • This is not an all-inclusive database, some songs and artists will not be available.
     
  • To find Freegal on the library website: go to Resources -> Articles & Research -> Society & Culture -> Freegal

Handy tip

To find out who is on Freegal, look at albums or artists that have recorded with Sony. For example, Lady Gaga doesn’t record with Sony, but she was on the MuchDance 2012 album that they produced, so her song from that album is available on Freegal.

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