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Ebooks & audiobooks

All eBook and audiobook options at CCI explained
ebooks and audiobooks at CCI (Oct 2019).pdf
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SCDSB's Digital Library Collection

SCDSB has purchased ebooks and audiobooks that you can download to your personal device or read/listen to online.  To read/listen on your phone, download the free app call Sora (the Overdrive app for school collections), search for SCDSB, then log in with your regular school username and password.  More detailed info can be found in the pdf and how to videos below.
Accessing SCDSB's Overdrive collection.pdf
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Short "How to" videos for using Overdrive on your computer
  • How to find and log in to Overdrive (SCDSB's Digital Library collection)
  • How to search for books in Overdrive
  • How to sign out a book
  • Other features in Overdrive (creating a hold, etc.)
  • Using the built in dictionary and making notes in Overdrive
  • Translating an eBook into other languages in Overdrive
  • Requesting an eBook or audiobook for an extended time period

​Short "How to" videos for using the SORA app on your phone or tablet 
  • How to get the Sora app
  • How use the Sora app
  • More features of the SORA app (including making notes)

TumbleBookCloud logo and link
TeenBookCloud

Another option for eBooks and audiobooks; streaming only (no downloading); includes YA novels, some of the "classics" (like all of Shakespeare's plays), poetry, short stories and nonfiction (science, history, geography topics).

Listen and read along at the same time, OR choose to just read OR just listen - the choice is yours!  On a home computer, you can bookmark where you left off.

If you are not at school, you will need to log into this site. Password info for ALL of CCI's online resources can be found by using the ONE password listed in your student agenda to open the "Passwords" page on the navigation menu above.


 Audiobooks on Mp3 players you can sign out of the library
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We have three mp3 players loaded with a variety of audiobooks which can be signed out of the library.

We have YA novels (variety of genres of interest to both boys and girls), some non-fiction books, as well as some of the "classics".

To see what we have in our audiobook collection, go to the search catalogue and search for "audiobooks" OR open up the PDF file below which gives detailed information including a summary for each book in our Mp3 player audiobook collection OR click on a book cover in the display below to go to Goodreads.com (click on the book cover again once you are there to read summaries and find more info about the author).

Audiobooks at CCI (Dec. 2018).pdf
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Reference eBooks

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The following books from Infobase Publishing are available in print in the library AND online. 

Password info for ALL of CCI's online resources can be found by using the ONE password listed in your student agenda to open the "Passwords" page on the navigation menu above.
  • Dictionary of Alllusions
  • Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms
  • Dictionary of Proverbs

  • Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

  • Guide to Good Writing
  • Guide to Good Research

  • Guide to Good Style

  • History in Literature
  • The Novel, 100
  • Words to Rhyme With

Marshall Cavendish logo and link




Reference eBooks from Marshall Cavendish Publishing. 

Password info for ALL of CCI's online resources can be found by using the ONE password listed in your student agenda to open the "Passwords" page on the navigation menu above.

Set of 10 books on our solar system – Mars, Neptune, the Sun, etc.

2 endangered species books – Seals and Hawks & Falcons
Craft of Writing Series (one book each the following topics: fiction, poetry, journalism, screenplays and playwriting)

2 health books:  Diseases, Disorders and Injuries and Encyclopedia of Diseases and Disorder


Fiction and Nonfiction eBooks

Other online books and magazines
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Magazines and Newspapers
and other news sources


Directory of Open Source Journals
- this site provides links to over 1400 electronic journals (academic magazines) on a variety of topics (literature, history, science, etc.) which can then be searched for articles. Some of the journals are in languages other than English and most are written at a university level.

The Toronto Star
Globe and Mail

The Collingwood Connection
The Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin
The Wasaga Sun
The Creemore Echo
The Blue Mountain Courier-Herald

Newspaper front pages (from Newseum)
- click on the North America tab to see today's front pages in various Canadian newspapers

Maclean's Magazine
CBC News
CTV News

Time Magazine
Time archives - you can search the Time magazine collection from 1923 to the present

National Geographic archives - search magazines from 2005 to the present


Some more free eBook sources and online magazines

Baen (free science fiction ebooks from Baen publisher)

Book Glutton

Childrens' Books Online - the Rosetta Project - nursery rhymes, fairy tales, older public domain childrens' books

Directory of Open Source Books -  over 1,900 academic, peer-reviewed books available.  Some are in languages other than English and most are definitely written at a university level.

Directory of Open Source Journals - this site provides links to over 1400 electronic journals (academic magazines) on a variety of topics (literature, history, science, etc.) which can then be searched for articles. Some of the journals are in languages other than English and most are written at a university level.

Figment - "a community where you can share your writing, connect with other readers, and discover new stories and authors. Whatever you're into, from sonnets to mysteries, from sci-fi stories to cell phone novels, you can find it all here".

Go Comics - lots of great newspaper style comic strips you can read for free.

Google Books - go to the advanced search page to limit your search to"Google eBooks only" or to "full view" only to avoid getting books that only offer a preview with a link to Amazon to buy

Google eBooks - you can read online or download to a device books that are in the public domain (no copyright)

International Children's Digital Library - childrens' books from around the world (over 4,500 books in 59 languages); read online; search by language, genre, keyword and reading level.

Ontario Time Machine - "virtually touch really old Ontario books" (1750's to early 20th century)

Project Gutenberg (free ebooks and lots more!)
Project Gutenberg (Canadian content)

Storyline Online - Actors from the Screen Actors Guild read children's books

The Digital Librarian - Magazines and Journals page

The Digital Librarian - News and Jouralism page


Libravox  -   These books are in the public domain which means that most of them were published BEFORE the 1920's - this is a great place to find FREE audio versions of "the classics"  which you can keep as long as you like. Listen on a computer OR download to your mp3 player/ipod.

You can also BORROW AUDIO BOOKS and EBOOKS through your PUBLIC LIBRARY as long as you have a valid library card.  Ms. Sherwin in the CCI library can show you how to do this - just ask!

When you borrow an audio book you download a time stamped mp3 or wma file which you can transfer to any listening device; after the set time (1 or 2 weeks) the file can no longer be accessed (which means you have "returned" it!). 

See me Ms. Sherwin here at CCI OR go to your public library for more info:

Collingwood Public Library

Clearview Public Library

Wasaga Beach Public Library

Town of the Blue Mountains Public Library (L.E. Shore Memorial Library)

Audiobooks available on an Mp3 player you can sign out

Where the Streets Had a Name
Things Fall Apart
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Doctor Cerberus
Solo
The Great War: Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War
Come August, Come Freedom: The Bellows, The Gallows, and The Black General Gabriel
Bless Me Ultima
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
Feed
Tales from the Arabian Nights: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and Other Stories
Sense and Sensibility
Johnny Get Your Gun
Of Poseidon
Peter and the Starcatchers
In Our Backyard: Human Trafficking in America and What We Can Do to Stop It
Beowulf And The Monsters
Zac and Mia
If I Run
Torn from Troy


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