Host your own public library branch from your computer. Curate an ebook shelf visitors can browse from any e-reader, with no accounts and no tracking.
Libby
All over the world, local libraries offer millions of ebooks and audiobooks. You can borrow them — for free, instantly — with a library card and Libby: the award-winning, much-loved app for libraries.
Xteink’s tiny e-readers are getting access to free books through Libby
It’s getting a lot easier to source ebooks for Xteink’s tiny e-readers.
From Shore to Shore
Rent and save from the world's largest eBookstore. Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone.
Reading on an e-reader · Standard Reader
Put your unread queue on a Kobo, Kindle or phone as real EPUB files.
BookStack
BookStack is a simple, open-source, self-hosted, easy-to-use platform for organising and storing information.
ShelfCheck — Your Reading List, Your Library, Available Now
Upload your Goodreads or Hardcover reading list and instantly see which books are available to borrow for free at your local library through Libby.
calibre - E-book management
calibre: The one stop solution for all your e-book needs. Comprehensive e-book software.
What Libraries Actually Do – Libraries as Epistemic Institutions
One of the biggest challenges for libraries telling their story is that the library means something different depending on who’s in the room. For a student, it’s a place to study and a staff full of people who want them to succeed. For a faculty member, it might be the invisible infrastructure that delivers electronic articles or the subject liaison who visits their class each year. For a graduate student, it’s often something more: a research partner, a data collaborator, a guide through the methodological expectations of a discipline. And that’s before accounting for the larger information environment that those users are already swimming in, where disciplines publish at high rates; trade publications and newsletters and Substacks produce sense-making content daily; and social media, messaging apps, and community channels add still more. The information environment is a flood around us, and the library is one stream of that flow.
I'm actively seeking book bloggers, indie booksellers, librarians, educators interested in contributing to my HOW READERS DISCOVER BOOKS blog. Info: books.leaflet.pub/about One of my goals: to help boost the book boosters, help people find new ways to discover books, and (of course) boost books.
About - How Readers Find Books
books.leaflet.pubDelighted to have librarians, educators, book bloggers, and booksellers contributing to HOW READERS FIND BOOKS. Would esp be interested in more contributors from outside of North America. For more info about how to contribute a guest post: books.leaflet.pub/about #BookSky #LibrarySky
About - How Readers Find Books
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