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Ebooks and Audiobooks

Explore our digital collection wherever you are

Expand your reading options with our extensive selection of audiobooks, ebooks, magazines, comics, and more.

  • Easily take your next read with you - wherever you want to go
  • Seamlessly manage your digital checkouts with automatic returns and no late fees
  • Read or listen on just about any mobile device, web browser or eReader

Libby app logo.Libby App
Easy-to-use browsing, checkout and reading experience. In addition to ebooks and audiobooks, access over 3,500 magazine titles which don't count against your total Libby checkouts. Explore Libby Extras for Qello's streaming concerts, The Great Courses on-demand video trainings, Craftsy's instructional videos in English and Spanish for creative makers and ArtistWorks music lessons. Kindle Fire users can follow the instructions here to add Libby to their device. Classic Overdrive is available on your computer's web browser.


Hoopla app logo.Hoopla App
Choose from thousands of ebooks, audiobooks and comics. With no waiting, titles can be borrowed immediately and read in your web browser or downloaded to phones or tablets.



Light blue BiblioBoard logo.BiblioBoard Library
Find your next favorite author from BiblioBoard's selection of independent authors from the Sacramento area, California, the US and Canada. Part of the Indie Author Project.



Enki logo.Enki California Digital Library
Access over 5,300 ebooks with no wait. Browse curated lists including the Indie Author Project collection, which features over 400 award-winning indie-published ebooks. This collection has been made available to Sacramento Public Library as a partnership with Biblioboard.
 
Have Questions?
How many items can I check out?

Libby allows 60 checkouts at a time. You may also place up to 30 items on hold in Libby. Hoopla offers seven checkouts per month. Digital checkouts on any app do not count against your total print material checkouts.

How long can I borrow ebooks and audiobooks?

Hoopla ebooks, audiobooks and comics checkout for three weeks and Hoopla music checks out for seven days. Libby titles check out for three weeks. Everything returns automatically on the due date. Libby does allow renewals if no one else is waiting to borrow the title.

Why are there wait lists for digital content?

Some of our ebook and media collections, likeLibby, are limited to one copy per user. To keep wait lists from getting too long, we try to buy multiple copies per person waiting. Everything on Hoopla is available for immediate checkout, with no waiting, so you may want to start your ebook search with Hoopla. However, not every title is available on Hoopla due to licensing restrictions.

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What devices are compatible with the Libby app?
The Libby app is currently available for Android 5.0+ (non-Kindle), iOS 10+ (iPhone/iPad/iPod touch), and Windows 10 devices. If your device is an older version than what was listed, you can still enjoy Libby by using your internet browser to visit http://libbyapp.com.