Download e-books with a limited loan period
On this page you can find brief descriptions on how to download e-books for offline use from platforms that have a limited loan period.
Only one of the library's e-book vendors use DRM protection (Digital Rights Management) on their e-books. When you download DRM-protected books for offline reading you might experience some limitations in usability, such as how long you can keep the book and if you can choose which app you want to open the book with.
The DRM protection only applies when you download an e-book, not when you choose to read the book online in your browser. If you want to make annotations or highlights in the texts online, you need to use a computer and log in with a personal account.
Ebook Central
Download a temporary loan (up to 21 days) of an entire e-book
- Create an Adobe IDif you don't already have one.
- Download Adobe Digital Editions to your device.
- Authorize the app with your Adobe Account.
- Find the e-book that you want to download(you can search all the library's e-books in reSEARCH).
- Choose Download Book to the left.
- Log in with your KI or student ID.
- Select the kind of device you are using.
- Click Done with this step, if you have installed Adobe Digital Editions.
- Sometimes you may choose between the PDF and Epub format or specify how many days you need the book for. (You may download the same book an unlimited number of times consecutively).
- Click Download
- Open the book in Adobe Digital Editions.
Download a part of a book permanently
- Find the e-book that you want to download (you can search all the library's e-books in reSEARCH).
- Use the Download PDF Chapter link, to download an entire chapter directly.
- Select the chapter you want to download and click Download.
- Open the PDF in your preferred PDF reader.
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