I'm a big fan of eBooks and eAudiobooks. They offer instantaneous delivery of a title (if it's not already checked out) from within and outside your library 24/7. CSM has both varieties from a few different collections such as NetLibrary and Overdrive. The NetLibrary collection accessible from the CSM Library website offers mainly academic titles in text and audio format useful for writing college level research papers. However, if you feel the need for a popular title I go straight to the Overdrive (Digital Book Library from the eBooks page on the library site) collection. This collection is more useful when working from your own personal computer because you will have to download their platform. But once that is done, you have access to thousands of titles. One issue, however, is that these titles don't work with Apple devices. As a workaround, you can burn some titles to CD for more portability.

Other than using your library's resources for paid subscriptions (free to you) to eBooks and eAudiobooks, you can find free content within the public domain. Of course, this means that titles will have been written previous to 1923, so it's a good source for classic books. You might also find books operating under a Creative Commons license. One really good source for materials like this is at the Internet Archive.

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