Maryland's Digital Library (2024)

FAQs

What is the biggest free digital library? ›

Internet Archive: The largest digital library for downloading e-books and audio-books for free.

A current photo ID is all that is required to get a permanent library card. Accepted forms of ID include: Maryland Vehicle Administration-issued ID: driver's license, State-issued ID. Government-issued ID: U.S. passport, military ID, Department of Corrections photo ID.

Most importantly, a digital library should provide means for organizing, storing, and retrieving the contents. e-Library stores the contents at a central location for providing access on multiple devices. A physical library consists of Physical Books, Magazines, Newspapers, Monographs, reports, etc.

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 70,000 free eBooks

Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.

Publishers often require that each digital copy is only loaned to one person at a time (just like physical library books). This ensures that authors, narrators, and other creators are paid fairly for their work, even if it's consumed digitally.

For the second year in a row, the Los Angeles Public Library topped the global list, with more than 12 million digital titles circulated; MELSA: Twin Cities Metro eLibrary in Minnesota remains the highest circulating consortium.

Libby is a free app where you can enjoy ebooks, digital audiobooks, and magazines from your public library. You can stream titles with Wi-Fi or mobile data, or download them for offline use and read anytime, anywhere. All you need to get started is a library card.

Z-Library (abbreviated as z-lib, formerly BookFinder) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic texts and general-interest books. It began as a mirror of Library Genesis, but has since expanded dramatically. Z-Library. Z-Library homepage (December 20, 2022)

What is an elibrary? ›

An e-library or digital library is a compilation of digital resources available to users via the internet. These resources encompass a variety of materials, including books, articles, journals, research papers, multimedia content, and more.

A digital library (also called an online library, an internet library, a digital repository, a library without walls, or a digital collection) is an online database of digital objects that can include text, still images, audio, video, digital documents, or other digital media formats or a library accessible through the ...

Internet Archive is the most extensive free online non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. They provide people with universal access to all knowledge.

For the second year in a row, Los Angeles Public Library topped the global list achieving a new record of serving readers with more than 12 million digital titles circulated.

According to the Alexa Traffic Rank service, Z-Library was ranked as the 8,182nd most active website in October 2021. The organization describes itself as "the world's largest e-book library", as well as "the world's largest scientific articles store", and operates as a non-profit organization sustained by donations.

As of February 4, 2024, the Internet Archive held more than 44 million print materials, 10.6 million videos, 1 million software programs, 15 million audio files, 4.8 million images, 255,000 concerts, and over 835 billion web pages in its Wayback Machine.