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How to Read Library Ebooks

This guide offers suggestions on how to access and read library subscribed or purchased ebooks.

Ebooks from Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg ebooks are Open Access (no SHU login required). Project Gutenberg offers over 69,000 free ebooks. Contains classic books from the start of this century and previous centuries, from authors like Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, as well as well-loved favorites like the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Tarzan and Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alice's adventures in Wonderland as told by Lewis Carroll, and thousands of others. Project Gutenberg offers a variety of download options. See the screenshot on the right.

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