An e-Book is a book in digital format. Throughout history, books have been hand scribed texts, mass-printed with movable type, read aloud as audio books, photocopied, purchased, borrowed, annotated and indexed. And now books can be read online on a wide variety of devices anywhere, anytime!
e-Textbooks in their most basic form are screen-rendered copies of print textbooks, but there are many different models of e-Textbooks. The simplest example of an e-Text is a PDF version of a print text, delivering static text and no interactive learning. More complex examples of e-Texts include online text enhanced by interactive learning activities and online assessment such as quizzes.
As well as print books, the University Library provides access to thousands of e-Books in a variety of subject areas. You can access e-Books and e-Textbooks wherever and whenever you need them.
