eBooks & eMedia

eMedia Library

Checkout eBooks and audiobooks anytime with eMediaLibrary.   Borrow up to 5 titles at a time.

Device Guides

Android – Chromebooks – iPad/iPhone – iPods – Kindle – Kindle Fire – Nook – Other Devices

How to Guides

eAudiobooks – eBooks – General Help – Troubleshooting

Libby App from Overdrive

Checkout eBooks and audiobooks anytime with the Libby app from Overdrive. Get the Libby app to download directly to your tablet or smartphone.

eReadIllinois eBooks and Audiobooks

Download eBooks and audiobooks from eReadIllinois.  Get the Axis 360 app to seamlessly checkout and read/listen to titles. Borrow up to 5 titles at a time.

Device Guides

Android – Apple/iOS – Kindle Fire/Fire HD – Windows Surface Pro – Windows PC

Hoopla Collections

Choose from a great selection of movies, TV shows, music albums, audiobooks, ebooks, and comic collections from hoopla. There are no holds to place. Listen on your computer or with the hoopla app. Create your own hoopla account with your Franklin Park Library card. Learn more about hoopla here.

• 600 Free eBooks – A list of eBooks from Open Culture.
• Amazon – Free eBooks through the Kindle Store. Titles range from public domain to limited-time promotional titles.
• BBC Ebooks – A small eBook collection of Dr. Who novels.
• Baen Free Library – More than 100 free science fiction eBooks including Lois McMaster Bujold, Catherine Asaro, and Harry Turtledove.
• Barnes and Noble – A variety of free eBooks from the retailer.
• Bookyards – Over 17,000 eBooks, and links to many more.
• Cory Doctrow’s Little Brother – A free eBook to download.
• eReaderIQ – Many eBooks, including those specially for Kindle.
• Feedbooks – Free public domain eBooks for Android and iPhone/iPad.
• Freebook Sifter – Sift through free eBooks available on Amazon.com.

• HathiTrust Digital Library – Contains millions of books digitized by university libraries. Content is academic and research-oriented.
• Many Books – Includes free eBooks from Project Gutenberg and other sources.
• Online Books Page – Peruse this index with loads of eBooks.
• Open Library – This project, “One web page for every book,” includes eBooks.
• PDFbooks – eBooks of classics and unpublished fiction and nonfiction in pdf format.
• Project Gutenberg’s Ebooks – Over 30,000 free eBooks to download to your computer, ereader, smartphone or other portable device.

• Books Should Be Free – Free mp3s of public domain audiobook titles.
• Internet Archive – Archives audio and live concert recordings.
• Learn Out Loud – Educational and inspirational audiobooks.
• Librivox – More free public domain audiobooks.
• Scribl – Audiobooks of up and coming authors.

• Project Gutenberg’s Audiobooks – Both human-read and computer-read audiobooks are available to download for free.
• Open Culture’s List – A list of links to free audiobooks.
• Storynory – Audiobooks for children.