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e-Textbooks tutorials

In this tutorial, a librarian demonstrates how to navigate the online bookstore and the course readings system, KeyLinks, at Frontier. Students will be shown how to check the bookstore for required textbooks, and how to tell if a course has an e-textbook available from the library.

Saving & Printing eBooks

Most e-Textbooks cannot be downloaded in full (like you can with an eBook from Amazon, for example). However, most platforms allow you to print or save a limited number of pages at a time. Please see below for what's allowed and instructions for each platform.

  • Pages or chapters can be downloaded as a PDF to save or print. There are limits on how many pages can be downloaded at one time. These page limits display on the book's Details page and vary depending on publisher restrictions.
  • ​To download entire chapters, you can use the table of contents display on the Details page or the navigation menu within the ebook. You will receive a warning if the chapter is longer than the page limit allowed for download.
  • Use your brower's print function to save as a PDF. This will print/save the entire chapter, including figures/tables, so it may be a large number of pages. Figures & images can also be saved individually as jpeg or PowerPoint slides.
  • Set up a personal account to:
    • save favorite chapters
    • take self-assessment quizzes
  • Pages or chapters can be downloaded as a PDF to save or print. There are limits on how many pages can be downloaded at one time. These page limits display on the item's table of contents page and vary depending on publisher restrictions.
  • Use the table of contents page to download entire chapters (if they are within the page limit for downloading). Click on "show subsections" if chapters are not visible, or to see sections within a chapter.
  • Personal Bookshelf
    • ProQuest automatically creates personalized Bookshelf based on your FNU email address.
    • Highlights and annotations will be saved within the system, but do not appear on saved PDFs or printed pages.
    • Annotations can be downloaded from your Bookshelf as text files.
  • use the table of contents page to download entire chapters (no page limits on downloading)
    • click on arrows next to part/section title to see chapters within each section
  • Use the table of contents page to download entire chapters.To download multiple chapters at once, select the checkbox next to each chapter, then click on "Download PDF (zip)"
  • Chapters can also be sent to Kindle, Dropbox, or Google Drive. Select the checkbox next to each chapter that you want to save, then click on the option you want to use.