eBook Resources

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Mahoney Library

 

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2 Convent Road
Morristown, NJ 07960

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Phone:
Main Desk: (973) 290-4237

Library Hours:
Mon-Fri 8am to 12am
Sat-Sun 2pm-12am

The library will be closed:

  • December 19, 2025 - January 4, 2026
  • Monday, January 19, 2026
  • Monday, February 16, 2026
  • Friday, March 6, 2026
  • Thurs-Friday, April 2-3, 2026
  • Monday, May 25, 2026
  • Thurs-Friday, June 18-19, 2026

Ebooks offer convenience, flexibility, and accessibility for students, faculty, and staff. They make it possible to carry a library of information with you as you move between locations and devices. Mahoney Library has over 250,000 ebooks to choose from in . 

We know that accessibility can look different to everyone, so if you find an ebook that Mahoney Library owns but you want it in a print format, please fill out an Interlibrary Loan request and we will do our best to get it for you. 

Proquest Ebook Central

A collection of over 120,000 authoritative, scholarly ebooks with breadth and depth on a number of topics, Ebook Central helps make research easier by also offering citation and note-taking tools, a user friendly interface, the ability to download and print some sources, and an online bookshelf to keep track of ebooks.

PrepSTEP for Colleges

Whether you are looking to improve core academic skills, score higher on college placement tests, explore career options, prepare for occupational exams, or build workplace skills, students can achieve their goals using PrepSTEP for Colleges & Universities.

Free Ebook Sources

Community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.

The Christian Classics Ethereal Library is a digital library of hundreds of classic Christian books selected for edification and education.

The web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. This site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993.

Open access site containing award winning monographs to afford emerging scholars new possibilities for online publications, weaving traditional narrative with digitized primary sources, including maps, photographs, and oral histories.

The Internet Archive hosts over 20 million ebooks, all of which are free to read. Some books will require you to create a free account and "check out" the ebook in order to read.

The New Jersey State Library has curated a collection of over 20,000 items that anyone physically in the state of New Jersey can access and read. Follow the instructions under "Getting Started" at the above link to make an account and start reading.

Searches over 100 different sources for Open Education Resources (free textbooks)

Searches 21 different repositories of Open Education Resources (free textbooks)

Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.

Listing over 3 million free books on the Web.

Project Gutenberg is an online library of free eBooks to encourage their creation and distribution.

The National Academies Press (NAP) publishes the publications of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. NAP publishes more than 200 publications per year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and medicine, providing authoritative, independently researched information on important matters in science and health policy.

Converting Files for eReading


  • Microsoft Office 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016 all come with 'Save to Adobe PDF' option.

  • Install dotepub bookmarklet in your browser. Click it when you want to convert a web page to ePUB. (If you have a Kindle, you can use this to convert web pages to .mobi)

 

Updated 6/2/25