Gillespie Public Library offers e-Books at no charge. Try one on your hand held devise or computer.
1. Contact the library to get your library card barcode and password
2. Go to 3M ebooks. Download 3M Cloud app for your device from blue bars on left
4. Pick U.S., then Illinois, then Illinois Heartland Library System
5. Log in using your library card barcode and password
6. Browse selection. Be sure to try the "Advanced Filter", some eBooks are also AUDIOBOOKS!
7. Download a book that is in green or place a hold on a book that is already checked out and you will be notified when it is available.
Books are available for 21 days if they aren't renewed. After that time, they will disappear from you device. They may be checked out again, but it will be on a first come first served basis just like a single physical book. If you place a book on hold and it becomes available to you, you will have several days to download it. If you don't download it in that time period, it will disappear from your device and move on to the next patron in line.
The 3M Cloud eBooks are compatible with iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Android phones, Android devices, NOOK tablets, PCs and Macs with Windows/Mac OS X, Nook eReader, Kobo eReader, Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire HD, and Kindle Fire HDX!
1. Contact the library to get your library card barcode and password
2. Go to 3M ebooks. Download 3M Cloud app for your device from blue bars on left
4. Pick U.S., then Illinois, then Illinois Heartland Library System
5. Log in using your library card barcode and password
6. Browse selection. Be sure to try the "Advanced Filter", some eBooks are also AUDIOBOOKS!
7. Download a book that is in green or place a hold on a book that is already checked out and you will be notified when it is available.
Books are available for 21 days if they aren't renewed. After that time, they will disappear from you device. They may be checked out again, but it will be on a first come first served basis just like a single physical book. If you place a book on hold and it becomes available to you, you will have several days to download it. If you don't download it in that time period, it will disappear from your device and move on to the next patron in line.
The 3M Cloud eBooks are compatible with iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Android phones, Android devices, NOOK tablets, PCs and Macs with Windows/Mac OS X, Nook eReader, Kobo eReader, Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire HD, and Kindle Fire HDX!