Option 2: download entire document as an e-book
To download an entire ebrary document thereby creating an e-book for temporary access you need Adobe Digital Editions, a free software program. (Not available for Linux, and not supported on Kindle.)
You will be able to read and annotate the e-book offline, and transfer it to your supported devices. Access periods are 7 days (single-user-only documents, if the library admins have chosen to allow this) or 14 days (multi-user documents), but you can return it early. You can have up to 10 ebrary e-books at a time.
Some ebrary documents may not be available for this type of download.
If it’s your first time downloading a document via Adobe Digital Editions, we recommend setting up Adobe Digital Editions before you start downloading from ebrary. Go here if it’s your first time: http://support.ebrary.com/?p=841
Or, you can do all the steps together, but this might be a bit more confusing:
- Go to your ebrary site
- If you aren’t already, sign in to your ebrary bookshelf account. (That is, click the Sign In button at the top right and sign in as usual.)
- Find the book you want to download
- Click the Download button in the ebrary search-results list or from within QuickView
- Select the option to download the entire document
- Click OK
- A dialog box shows number of days e-book will be readable
- Click Download
- If you haven’t already, you’ll be prompted to install Adobe Digital Editions
- Once Adobe Digital Editions is installed, choose either Open with Adobe Digital Editions or Save file to open later
- You’ll be prompted to sign in to your Adobe account. If you don’t already have one, click the button to create one
- Click OK
That’s it!
ebrary’s alternative download option is to :
Download a specific chapter or page range as an image PDF
Learn more: http://support.ebrary.com/?p=655
Overview of ebrary’s download options: http://support.ebrary.com/?p=86