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eBooks, AudioBooks, and Music materials at Hartford Public Library are available 24-7, whenever you’re online. Our digital collection includes electronic books, music and audiobooks that you can check out to use on your computer or portable device. Before you are able to use these materials on some devices, you may need to download software that allows your computer or device to correctly process the files. Please note in order to download ebooks, audiobooks and music, you must have a full-service Hartford Public Library card.

 

                                    eBooks/Audiobooks/Music

eBooks  

Through Overdrive you can download e-books from the Library's collection that can be viewed on your computer or transferred to a Kindle, NOOK, Sony Reader, iPad and many other portable devices. There are never overdue books or late fees - titles automatically return to the Library's collection after 7 or 14 days. Start browsing our collection here!

Go to Overdrive eBook Collection

Sites with Public Domain titlessss 

Google Books - Download full copies of out-of-copyright books from a variety of public domain titles(100’s of 1000’s of titles)
Internet Archive - A non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music.(over 2.5 million titles)
ManyBooks.net (29,000 titles)
Online Books Page (over 1 million titles)
Project Gutenberg - The original site for on-line texts, Project Gutenberg is still on the cutting edge with over 10,000 classics, including many international titles. (over 33,000 titles)
For the Kindle - Amazon's Free Collection (over 16.000 of the most popular classics)*
For the Nook - Barnes & Noble's Free Collection*

In iCONN - E-Reference Books (67 titles) (read online only) (requires CT public library card)

* Note: these sites require setting up an account with a credit card.

Audiobooks

Access eAudioBooks now through OneClickdigital from Recorded Books. All the titles will play on an iPod. Mobile apps for the iPhone and Android will be coming later this year. You will need to set up a new user account to use the service. Enjoy!

Music

The Freegal Music Service is a download music service that the Hartford Public Library offers, free of charge, for use by  library cardholders.

The Freegal Music Service is operated by Library Ideas, LLC of Fairfax, Virginia.  

Here’s how Freegal works:

• Legally download music for free from the Freegal site
• All music is free and you get to keep it forever – no due dates
• All songs work on MP3 players, iPods, iPhones, and so on
• HPL Library Card and Internet Card holders can download up to three songs each week (the counter resets to zero at 9 p.m. on Sunday evening)
• Hundreds of thousands of songs in over 100 genres of music are available to download

Quick tips for using Freegal:

• Have your HPL card handy to login to Freegal
• Search by genre and artist (bands that start with “The” are listed under the letter “t”)
• Preview a song by clicking on the arrow to the left of the song title
• Download a song by clicking “Download Now” and the clicking “Save”
• If you click “Download Now” and then click “Cancel,” you still use up one of your weekly song downloads