Now available with your student's CLEVER login, Open eBooks! SCM students "can now borrow up to 10 books at a time and replace one title with another as many times as they would like." Available on iOS and Android, the free app is available for download to your favorite handheld devices.
Open eBooks features thousands of titles generously contributed by publishers: You can get an idea of what is currently available by visiting their Tumblr and Pinterest pages.
From their website:
What is Open eBooks?
Open eBooks is a partnership between the Digital Public Library of America, The New York Public Library, and First Book, with content support from digital books distributor Baker & Taylor and login support from Clever.Open eBooks is an app containing thousands of popular and award-winning titles that are free for children from in-need households. These eBooks can be read without checkouts or holds. Children from in-need families can access these eBooks, which include some of the most popular works of the present and past, using the Open eBooks app and read as many as they like without incurring any costs. The goal of Open eBooks is to encourage a love of reading and serve as a gateway to children reading even more often, whether in school, at libraries, or through other eBook reading apps.
For more infomation, please visit Open book FAQ page or this Google Doc
Your student can also use Open eBooks through Clever, our free, secure, single sign-on for SCM students. Your student should be familiar with thier sign-in ID and password, but a step-by-step guide is available here.
We hope you and your kids enjoy this amazing new resource for our SCM students!
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