Gloucester County Library System cardholders can now download thousands of eBooks for use on a variety of devices including eReaders, tablets, smartphones, and PCs. (See our eBook FAQ for more information about devices and file formats.) At the moment, Freading ebooks are not viewable on any Kindle device.

The Freading service offers unlimited, simultaneous access to all titles, so there is no waiting for another user to return a title before you can borrow it. Access to books is controlled by tokens. Each user is given a weekly allotment of 4 tokens which appears in the upper right hand corner of the home page after login. These tokens are redeemed to borrow books. (For more information about tokens, see our eBooks FAQ.)

In order to use the service, you will need to download and install Adobe Digital Editions software on your PC or Macintosh. A link to Adobe Digital Editions is available on the Freading web site.

The Adobe Digital Editions software will limit your access to each ebook for a 2 week initial period.  You can extend the loan period for one 2 week period by going back to the book display on the website and hitting the download button again.  You will see that the token value has decreased since the initial loan.  Most renewals are free.

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eBook Quick Start Guides

• iPad/iPhone & Adobe Digital Editions (Overdrive and Freading)
• Nook & Adobe Digital Editions (Overdrive and Freading)

Extensive Help Documentation is available on the Freading site. This FAQ describes how to use the site, the Adobe Digital Editions software, what devices are compatible with Freading eBooks, and more.

Public Computer Users: Please do not download an eBook to a public computer. You may not have permissions to download to a public computer, or the computer may not have the necessary software installed.

Technical Support

If you require technical assistance, you can contact library eBook tech support at ebooks@gcls.org.

When it comes to eBooks, there's NOT eNOUGH Ever wonder why many of your favorite authors aren’t available in an eBook or eAudiobook format from New Jersey libraries? The answer might surprise you. The policies of the major publishers concerning selling eBooks to libraries are all different. Your library has to deal with policies like: • Publishers who refuse to sell eBooks and/or eAudiobooks to libraries; • Publishers who charge libraries as much as 5 times more than consumers for the same digital content; • Publishers who embargo their content and will not sell to libraries any newly published digital content; • Publishers who make digital content available in only some formats (ePub but not Kindle for example). See http://savemynjlibrary.org/notenoughebooks for more information.