Reading eBooks
The academic e-book collections acquired by the UA Libraries are best read on a personal computer although some are downloadable and viewable on an e-book reader. While e-book readers are generally defined as electronic devices designed specifically for reading digital books (e.g. Sony Reader, Kobo, Kindle, nook), phones (e.g. iphone, Android phones) and tablets (e.g. ipad, Samsung Galaxy) along with desktop computers and laptops are all examples of devices that, with the appropriate software or apps, can be used to read e-books.
While some UAL e-books are simply viewable on a computer's Web browser, others require software such as Adobe Digital Editions. Adobe Digital Editions is compatible with screen reading software JAWS, NVDA or Window-Eyes on Windows and VoiceOver on Mac. Windows-based screen reading software must be installed separately.
Click on each tab for Printing and Downloading information
- Read online
- Download the entire book
- Download an individual chapter
- Read Online
- Some full ebooks can be downloaded, but this varies by publisher
- Chapter Downloading is available
- Printing, Saving pages and Emailing pages is limited
- Read Online
- Download the entire book
- Download individual chapters
- Print the individual chapters or the entire book
- Read online
- Download individual chapters for reading offline
- Printing Individual chapters
- Full book downloading or printing is not available
- There is no option to download the entire book or read online
- Download the individual chapters
- Print the individual chapters
- View and download the entire book
- Download individual chapters
- Save and read offline
- Print sections of the book from the downloaded copy
- Read Online
- Full download is not available
- Chapter download is available
- Printing is limited
