Over 50,000 O'Reilly technology, business, & digital media eBooks, audiobooks, and videos are downloadable to CI students. After downloading the O'Reilly Education mobile app:
The most user friendly eBook platforms offer titles that are entirely downloadable by chapter PDF, and have no printing restrictions. Users may retain PDFs for research use. Such platforms include:
Springer Link also offers whole book PDF downloads, yay!
The two eBook platforms above are essentially read-only. Most Full view titles in HathiTrust offer only one page at a time download capability (see the Guide to using HathiTrust here.) ACLS Humanities titles allow for downloading/printing 10 pages at a time.
Popular aggregator eBook platforms Ebsco and ProQuest offer limited use eBooks whose capabilities vary by title and publisher. Users can usually print and/or download by pdf a significant portion of these eBooks. You can clearly identify the available print/download options in ProQuest eBooks by clicking into the title detail of any eBook:
Ebsco eBooks offer the same type of information a bit further down on their eBook title detail page:
Most Ebsco and ProQuest eBooks can be fully downloaded for a limited time period. To do so requires users to install Adobe Digital Editions and, for Ebsco, to create an Ebsco account (both are free).
For more extensive instruction including short video guides, please see:
ProQuest eBook Central User Guide