Available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Library borrowers can download bestsellers from Stieg Larsson, David Nicholls and Dan Brown amongst many other bestsellers to play on their MP3 Player, iPod or computer from home or anywhere in the world.  All that is required is a PC with broadband internet access and your library membership details.

As each title has unlimited availability, Library members can all download the latest bestsellers at the same time; meaning waiting lists are a thing of the past!

Your 24 hour library:

 The service (formerly known as ClipperDL) from W.F.Howes allows you to download and listen to over 700 audiobooks (MP3 or WMA formats) on your personal computer or portable media player. You can download audiobooks for a 3 week 'loan' period. After 3 weeks your options are to renew your audiobook(s) for a further 3 weeks, or delete those no longer required from your computer or portable player.

Current users of the 'EBSCOhost' platform will need to create a new OneClickdigital account. Unfortunately your existing account preferences, notes, and holds, etc. will not be transferred to the new site (this will not prevent you from listening to titles you have already downloaded). A Download Manager software called OneClickdigital Media Manager is available to download when you create your account. The new improved site has loads of fantastic features including wishlists.

Want more information? See Getting started with OneClickdigital (20 minute YouTube video)

Create a new OneClickdigital account

In order to access eBooks & Audiobooks on OneClickdigital account is required.

You must set up an account on a library computer (this cannot be done from home). It is easy to set up an account. Once created, you should be able to access your account from any PC.

To set up an account click on the OneClickdigital link: 

1. Select the Create New Account link in the upper right side of the screen,

2. Enter the library information and personal information required,

3. Choose whether or not to use the OneClickdigital Media Manager as your default player. This is the preferred method and it allows for the easiest download experience. Mac users or users that wish to download manually should select "no".

4. Next you select a Default Device. If you are an iPod, iPhone, iPad or iTouch user select "iTunes" as your Default Device. Users with a non-Apple device select "Other".

5. Enter your First Name and Last Name and the Postal code associated with the address linked to your library card.

6. Create a username and password.

7. Enter your email address and then reenter to confirm it.

8. Click Create an Account.

9. You are done! Need help with setting up an account? See the tutorial - Setting up an account (YouTube video)

OneClickdigital Media Manager - Easily download and transfer your digitalcontent, with one click

OneClickdigital Media Manager is a free program that handles the downloadling and transfering of all your favorite audio titles to your portable listening device. It also works as a fully functional player if you want to listen to the audiobook on your computer.  It's as easy as One Click to download and transfer books using OneClickdigital Media Manager.

Tutorial -OneClickdigital Media Manager Installation for Windows 7  (YouTube)

Tutorial -OneClickdigital Media Manager Installation for Windows XP (YouTube)

Tools to help you use the new OneClickdigital site

1. View tutorials on how to download audiobooks from the site

2. If you want to transfer an audiobook from your computer to a portable device such as an iPod, iPhone or MP3 player you will need to check it is on the list of  eAudio compatible devices 

3. OneClickdigital FAQ's 

4. OneClickdigital eBooks & audiobooks help pages (external link to FAQ's, tutorials, and more)

5. FAQ's didn't help? Contact OneClickdigital Support Team direct.

Free e-books available online

There are a number of websites online providing free access to e-books. Many of these have been digitised by volunteers, and from out-of-copyright works. The following are a small selection of sites offering access to free electronic texts (Users are responsible for viewing and abiding by copyright limitations):

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts - A mix of public domain and open access documents focused on American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy.

Bartleby - an extensive collection of Reference, Verse, Fiction and Non-fiction.

BBC - Dr Who - BBC site making available eight 'rare and acclaimed' Dr Who novels. Some have to be read online rather than downloaded.

The Bible Gateway - over 100 Bible versions in 54 languages. Most in html/text only, with some PDF and audio files.

Bookboon - online publisher of free e-books and online textbooks. All available in PDF. Textbooks cover engineering, information technology, economy and finance.

Bookyards - Over 32,000 PDf books. Categories include: Art, Biography, Fiction, War & Military. Some titles in French, german and Spanish.

British Library: Turning the Pages - Access to facsimiles of a number of antiquarian books from the British Library Collection. Uses Admobe Shockwave, which can be downloaded free of charge. Books include the Lindisfarne Gospels and Jane Austen's handwritten History of England.

Cliffs Notes - Study guides for literature.

FreeBooks4Doctors - 365 medical books sorted by topic (e.g. oncology, dermatology)

Free-ebooks.net - Free access to e-books in 45 categories, viewable online. Can be browsed by category or author. Membership required for downloading.

FreeTechBooks - computer science and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes.

Google eBooks - access to around 3 million free e-books and further paid-for titles.

Project Gutenberg - over 33,000 titles from the oldest e-book archive.

Universal Digital Library - Million Book Collection.

Further sites offering more specialised texts can be found in "The 2011 Guide to Free or Nearly-Free e-Books" by Chris Armstrong - available to borrow on the library catalogue.