eBook Resources:
Media on Demand:
Check out eBooks from the library with your Thomas Ford Library card and download from home or on the go with Media on Demand.
Learn what devices are compatible for downloading eBooks.
Read our FAQ on getting started with Media On Demand.
Free eBooks:
ManyBooks Over 26,000 free titles.
Project Gutenberg Over 33,000 free titles.
Open Library Over 1 million free titles.
Feedbooks A place to discover and publish eBooks.
eBook management:
Calibre E-book Management, a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books.
Kindle:
Thomas Ford Library has four Kindles for patron checkout each with over twenty recent and classic book titles. The Kindles may be borrowed for three weeks. Ask at the Reference Desk for a short demonstration and to borrow the devices.
As of August 2010, the Kindles have these books:
- Always Looking Up by Michael J. Fox
- Angels Fall by Nora Roberts
- Best American Humor
- Blockade Billy by Stephen King
- Change Your Brain, Change Your Body by Daniel G. Amen
- Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler
- Complete Illustrated Novels by Jane Austen
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
- Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- A Lion Called Christian by John Rendall
- Long Lost by Harlan Coben
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- Persuader by Lee Child
- A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
- The Shack by William P. Young
- Spoken from the Heart by Laura Bush
- The Spy by Clive Cussler
- UR by Stephen King
- Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
- War by Sebastian Junger
Audiobooks:
Downloadable Audiobooks
Log in to your Media on Demand account with your Thomas Ford Library Card to download audiobooks from home or on the go.
Find out what devices are compatible with the Media on Demand audiobooks.
Books on CD
Audiobook Reviews from Thomas Ford Staff
Here are some of our 2010 audiobook on CD suggestions:
iPod Books
The library has four iPods for patron checkout and over 100 iPod audiobooks available for download. IPod audiobooks have the same lending periods as our books–3 weeks. We load the content for you, free of charge. Interested? Here’s all you have to do:
- Bring your iPod to the Reference Desk. You can also borrow one of ours (we have 4 Nanos).
- If you bring in an iPod other than a Nano, clear its content.
- Please have your iPod charged.
- Choose from our list of iPod audiobook(s) here. If the book is “on shelf” in the catalog, it’s available. Ipod books have the same loan periods as our books–3 weeks at a time.
Please let us know if you have any suggestions for audiobook purchases.
Here are some of our newest iPod books:
