{"id":5826,"date":"2020-12-23T21:12:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T21:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/?p=5826"},"modified":"2020-12-23T21:12:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T21:12:37","slug":"find-e-books-to-read-during-winter-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/2020\/12\/23\/find-e-books-to-read-during-winter-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Find e-Books To Read During Winter Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5852\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5852\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5852 size-medium\" title=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2KiFYSN\" src=\"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/digital-book-300x200.png\" alt=\"digital books\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/digital-book-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/digital-book-768x511.png 768w, https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/digital-book-1024x682.png 1024w, https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/digital-book.png 1199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Library photo courtesy of https:\/\/bit.ly\/2KiFYSN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hello Matadors! Congratulations on completing your fall semester finals, and happy winter break! The Library building continues to be closed but feel free to browse the University Library&#8217;s digital collections and other resources for novels or other books to read during break.<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for a fun or interesting read, we have plenty of titles to choose from. Use our <a href=\"https:\/\/csun-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/primo-explore\/search?vid=01CALS_UNO\">OneSearch<\/a> tool to narrow your search results to a particular genre or topic. The &#8220;Books&#8221; and &#8220;Available online at CSUN&#8221; filters, in the left column, will allow you to narrow your results to e-books only.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for more leisure reading e-titles? Here are a few additional resources you can search and access on the web for free.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorama.com\/\">Authorama<\/a><\/strong>: browse this public domain book site for a variety of e-books by Lewis Carroll, Emerson, Kafka, and more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bibliomania.com\/\">Bibliomania<\/a>: search through more than 2,000 classic e-texts, also includes some study guides, and reference works.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookyards.com\/en\/welcome\">Bookyards<\/a><\/strong>: discover over 24,000 e-books, plus links to other digital libraries.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebookdirectory.com\/\">e-book Directory<\/a><\/strong>: access more than 20,000 e-books that include children&#8217;s books, literature, and information technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/\">Free-eBooks.net<\/a><\/strong>: browse topics for e-books such as\u00a0biography, fiction, games, history, and more.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/openlibrary.org\/\">Internet Archive Open Library<\/a><\/strong>: discover 200,000 million records for e-titles.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\">The Project Gutenberg<\/a><\/strong>: search the oldest book search engine offering more than 60,000 free titles.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.upenn.edu\/books\/\">The Online Books Page<\/a><\/strong>: access 3 million free e-books, site powered by the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readprint.com\/\">Read Print Library:<\/a><\/strong> discover novels, poems and more.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, for additional reading options, don&#8217;t forget to check out LAPL&#8217;s collection. Don&#8217;t have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lapl.org\/\">LAPL<\/a> e-card yet? Get one for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lapl.org\/about-lapl\/contact-us\/e-card\/e-card-registration\">LAPL.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Happy reading and happy winter break!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Matadors! Congratulations on completing your fall semester finals, and happy winter break! The Library building continues to be closed but feel free to browse&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/2020\/12\/23\/find-e-books-to-read-during-winter-break\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Find e-Books To Read During Winter Break<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[433,323,172,352],"class_list":["post-5826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reading-2","tag-ebooks","tag-lapl","tag-reading","tag-winter-break","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5826"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5858,"href":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826\/revisions\/5858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}