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eBooks at Valencia College Library: Home: Intro to eBooks

Paper Books vs. eBooks

With the introduction of the digital book, critics and advocates have been engaged in the ultimate debate about the future of reading.

As technology continues to become a part of our everyday lives, do you think that eBooks will eventually replace paper books?

Paper Books vs. eBooks
eBooks are our future: 172 votes (37.15%)
the paper book will never go away: 95 votes (20.52%)
can't both media coexist happily?: 190 votes (41.04%)
what's a book? - TV will always win: 6 votes (1.3%)
Total Votes: 463

eBooks at Valencia College Libraries

Welcome to the Valencia College Libraries' eBook LibGuide 

This guide will help you to search for, locate and download electronic books. In addition, it will also direct you to information about eReader software, uploading eBooks to eReaders and how to cite eBooks.

There are over 40,000 eBooks available in the Valencia College Libraries catalog and more will be added in the future.

All eBooks are available to read online, while printing, copying, downloading, and audio features may vary.

West Campus Librarians

The Valencia College libraries do not welcome solicitation of resources to be added to our LibGuides. This includes but is not limited to vendors, search engine optimizers, placement of ads, products, or any other requests. Our LibGuides are carefully curated resources developed in partnership with faculty, staff, and students to support specific assignments, courses, events, and other related purposes at Valencia College. The Valencia libraries reserve the right to ignore LibGuide resource solicitations, and/or block persistent requests from groups or individuals to add or promote links in our LibGuides.