How to download an ebook from ebrary   Tags: ebooks, ebrary  

Ebrary users can now down­load an entire ebook using Adobe Dig­i­tal Edi­tions, which seems to load onto most ebook readers except the Kin­dle.  Books remain viewable for 14 days and may be downloaded multiple times. The first download from ebrary will take a few more steps than subsequent downloads, as you must set up an ebrary account and download and install Adobe Digital Editions.

*Many thanks to Wayne Bivens-Tatum, Philosophy & Religion Librarian at Princeton University, for permission to adapt and reuse his excellent step-by-step instructions.

The screenshots were taken on a PC, so it may look a little different if you are using a Mac, but the steps remain the same.

Note:  There are still printing restrictions for ebrary ebooks after downloading.  Portions of ebooks may be printed from Adobe Digital Editions, but never the entire book.  The number of pages that may be printed varies by book, but is usually between 10-25% of the entire book.

1. Once you choose your ebook, click the “Down­load Button.”

2. In order to down­load a book, you have to cre­ate an Ebrary account, which you don’t need just to view the books online.

3. Once you cre­ate the account, you have to sign in, of course. From now on, you’ll be prompted to sign in when you want to download.

4. You’re not quite done. Get­ting the par­tial ebook on PDF is easy, but to get the entire book you have to down­load Adobe Dig­i­tal Edi­tions.

5. At the Adobe Dig­i­tal Edi­tions site, you have to click “Install.”

6. After you click “Install,” you get another screen, where you have to click “Install” again.

7. Adobe needs you to be really sure you want this, so after click­ing “Install” twice, you have to click “Yes” to actu­ally down­load Dig­i­tal Editions.

8. Then the setup begins.

9. And another step.

10. One more click and we’re done!

11.Well, almost. You still have to agree to the license terms.

12. Oh, and you still have a lit­tle set­ting up to do.

13. It turns out you can’t down­load the ebook with­out cre­at­ing accounts with both Ebrary and Adobe. So it’s time to do that.

14. Fill in all that infor­ma­tion and “Join Adobe.”

15. Suc­cess! Adobe Dig­i­tal Edi­tions activated.

16. Only you don’t have any books yet. So go back to the Ebrary down­load page and click “OK

17. Now you’ll get a prompt to down­load the ebook into Adobe Dig­i­tal Edi­tions. Click “OK.”

18. And now we have our book. Through Adobe Dig­i­tal Edi­tions, it can be moved to var­i­ous ebook read­ers and devices. Unfor­tu­nately, despite hav­ing accounts with both Ebrary and Adobe at this point, it doesn’t sync across com­put­ers. So if you down­load a book onto one com­puter using Adobe Dig­i­tal Edi­tions, you won’t be able to log into Adobe from another com­puter and access the book.

So, there you have it. How to down­load your Ebrary ebook for the first time, in 18 easy steps.