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eBooks & Audiobooks

With your library card, you can borrow eBooks and audiobooks for free using the Libby app - available anytime on your phone, tablet, or e-reader. Your card also gives you free access to NC LIVE, where you can find eBooks available 24/7.

 

Digital formats provide accessibility features, allowing people with visual impairments and dyslexia to customize font sizes, contrast settings, and text-to-speech options in ways that traditional print books simply cannot offer. Check out our eBook and audiobook offerings below.

If prompted to submit user account information while using these resources:

  • Traditional or virtual library cardholders:

    • Login with library card number and PIN (last four-digits of the phone number associated with your library account).

  • Student Access accounts:

    • Login with your staff or student STATE ID number and PIN (last four-digits of STATE ID number).

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Libby eBooks
& Audiobooks

  • Libby is a free app where you can enjoy eBooks & audiobooks. 

  • Our Libby collection includes adult and teen titles, and fiction and nonfiction.

  • Library card required.​​

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NC KIDS Digital Library eBooks, Audiobooks, and Read-alongs

  • PreK - 4th grade content.

  • Add "NC Kids Digital Library" in the Libby app.

  • Battle of the Books titles.

  • Library card required.

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NC Kids LEVEL UP eBooks
& Audiobooks

  • 4th - 8th grade content.

  • Add "NC Kids Digital Library" in the Libby app.

  • Battle of the Books titles.

  • Library card required.

ProQuest eBook Central

Ebook Central

  • Credible content from authoritative and scholarly sources.

  • Wide range of  topics.

  • Available in many languages.

  • Provided by NC LIVE.

  • Library card required.​​

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  • Over 26,000 fiction, reference, scholarly, and professional books online.

  • Provided by NC LIVE.

  • Library card required.

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EBSCOHost eBook Collection 

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  • Encyclopedias and reference sources that cover a variety of topics.

  • Provided by NC LIVE.

  • Library card required.

Gale eBooks

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  • Ebooks from North Carolina publishers and authors.

  • Includes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

    Provided by NC LIVE.

  • Library card required.

HomeGrown eBooks Collection 

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  • Borrow up to 20 Flex titles at any one time.

  • If no copies of a Flex title is available, place a Hold.

  • Provided by NC LIVE 

  • Library card required​​

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hoopla eBooks
& Audiobooks

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Omnigraphics Health Reference Sourcebooks eBooks Collection

  • Straightforward and authoritative eBooks on consumer health topics.

  • Provided by NC LIVE.

  • Library card required.​​​

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