E-Books

Click here to see the list of e-books that we've purchased just for West Linn patrons!

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You can download e-books for free with your library card through our Library2Go service. Here are some things to know about library e-books:

How to Check Out and Download E-Books

• Instructions for checking out e-books and placing holds (same for all devices)
• Instructions for retrieving holds when they become available (same for all devices)
• Download/transfer instructions for the Kindle Fire
• Download/transfer instructions for other Kindles
• Download/transfer instructions for iPads, iPhones, and iPods
• Download/transfer instructions for Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo eReader, Literati, and other devices

E-Book Availability

• Looking for a popular book in Library2Go and can't find it? It might be published by Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin, or Simon & Schuster. These publishers and their imprints will not license or sell e-books to libraries. In addition, Random House has tripled the prices of library e-books and HarperCollins has adopted a pricing model that most libraries find prohibitively expensive.
• Just like physical library books, each e-book only has a certain number of copies available. If all available copies are checked out, you can place a hold on the book and you'll be notified when it's available for checkout.
• Although Library2Go has thousands of e-books to choose from, not every physical book in the library has an e-book equivalent in Library2Go.
• Extra copies of popular e-books are now available exclusively to West Linn patrons. Click here to see a list of these books and to get more information.

Compatible Devices

• The Nook, Sony Reader, iPad, and Kindle are compatible with Library2Go. To see a complete list of compatible e-readers, click here.
• Unless you have an iPad or Kindle you will need to download Adobe Digital Editions to your computer before you can download e-books from Library2Go.
• E-books published by Penguin cannot be transferred to Kindles via wi-fi, only via USB. Instructions for doing so are here.

Need Help?

• If you get stuck, please send an e-mail to audiohelp@lincc.org. They try to respond within 48 hours.
• If you have e-book questions you can also call us or stop by the Information Desk. Please keep in mind that some questions take a long time to answer and we may need to take a message and call you back.