Most Iwasaki Library eBooks can be read directly from a web browser. However, if you want to mark up a printed copy of this week's reading or save a copy of the whole book for offline reading, you can also do that!
We highly recommend downloading individual chapters unless you absolutely need the whole book at once. Not only are chapters available as PDFs which you can keep as long as you want, they also don't reserve a copy of the eBook that someone else might be trying to access.
Downloading a Chapter/Section lets you save a PDF copy of a limited number of pages from the book. The exact number of pages available to download depends on the publisher, but ProQuest tends to allow about 40% of the book per day while EBSCO allows up to 100 pages maximum per user. Once downloaded, you can keep your PDF forever and print it or read it using any PDF reader.
Downloading an eBook lets you save a complete copy of the eBook to your device so that you can read offline. Most of our eBooks from ProQuest and EBSCO require that you read these eBooks through software called Adobe Digital Editions, which allows them to set a time limit for how long you can keep your copy of the eBook. If the eBook is limited to 1 or 3 users at a time, your download will use up one of those slots until it expires. In other words, downloading a full eBook is like checking out a book: you may keep your copy for a limited amount of time, and while you have it no one else can use that copy.
Using an eReader to read ProQuest and EBSCO eBooks is possible by connecting a compatible device to your computer and synchronizing with Adobe Digital Editions. Once you have successfully downloaded the eBook to your computer, follow these instructions from Adobe: Transfer eBook to eReader in Adobe Digital Editions. Please note that no Kindle devices are compatible with Adobe Digital Editions, although it may be possible to read downloaded eBooks on a Kindle Fire using the Bluefire app.
