E-books – Palmknihy, KUBO CLUB, Bookport, Libby

Library and e-Loans (Palmknihy)

The Regional Library in Žilina with the Czech portal Palmknihy (formerly eReading) offers its users access to more than 8,000 e-books as one of five Slovak libraries. Users may loan e-books from the comfort of their home via the online catalogue Carmen. The loaned e-books are shown in the Palmknihy application with a visible return date. You may loan 3 e-books at one time for 1,50 € for each book with the loan period of 30 days. The following day after the loan period expires, the e-book will delete on its own from the application (even without internet access). E-books cannot be returned sooner; users must wait until the loan period ends to loan another e-book.

Procedure for readers – loan e-books!

How to start? Connect to the e-Loan system (registration needed only for the first use): 

  • register to our library,
  • download the Palmknihy app for phones, tablets, and e-readers with an Androidor iOS system for free,
  • in the app, register with the same e-mail that you registered with in the library.

Palmknihy app support

Platform Version Reading device Download link
Android 5 a newer mobile phones, tablets, e-readers Google Play
Android 4.2.2 older e-readers File for download
iOS 11 a newer iPhone, iPad App Store

How to loan e-books?

  • Sign into the online catalogue Carmen,
  • find your e-bookand click on “Borrow Ebook”,
  • read and confirm e-book loaning conditions and click on “Request e-book”,
  • check the final information about the loan and its expiration date,
  • check your email for the confirmation of the e-loan.

Where can you find your e-book? How to open your e-book:

  • you will find your e-book in the Palmknihy app in My E-books section (the e-loan will return on its own after 31 days)

Do you need help? Find more about the app on www.palmknihy.cz/aplikace. We wish you lovely reading!

Available e-books in our catalogue.

 

KUBO CLUB

What is KUBO CLUB?

It is a Slovak digital library full of children’s e-books that is tailored for reading for children from 2 years old.

KUBO CLUB provides access to more than 1000 children’s books anywhere at any time. All you need is to have an account in the KUBO digital library and link it with your library.

How to do it?

  • Download the KUBO – detské knihy app through the App StoreGoogle Play, or https://app.kuboknihy.sk/,
  • log in or sign up,
  • go to NASTAVENIA(settings) and click PREPOJIŤ S KNIŽNICOU (link with library). An activated PaySy library card is needed,
  • choose your library and follow instructions.

And that’s all! After correctly linking with your library, all books in the KUBO app will be unlocked for you, including the weekly new ones. The KUBO digital reading room is available on any digital device with internet access.

 

Bookport

The Regional Library in Žilina is one of the members of the Knižnice pre Slovensko (Libraries for Slovakia) consortium. This initiative came as a reaction of The Scientific Library of SCSTI to the challenges of today’s digital era, which libraries must face. Thanks to this collaboration, we intend to provide you with access to E-sources, in which dozens of full text databases can be found. Bookport is one of them. This database offers electronic loans of e-books published in Grada Publishing, and others, predominantly in Czech language. More than 9 000 e-books from different fields can be accessed. Currently, e-books from the following sections are available: Health and Medical Literature, Personal Development and Knowledge, Business, Economics and Finance, Law, Taxes and Accounting.

The service offers online and offline access to e-books; one may have six loans at a time. Users are able to highlight the texts, or insert their own notes. 

To use the database’s functionalities, the creation of a personal user account is required.

Instructions:

  • To use the service, login or initial registration is required.
  • After registration/signing in, choose the Bookport database from the e-sources catalogue. If requested, sign in again.plagát
  • Make a new account in the Bookport database, using the same email you used to register into SCSTI.plagát
  • From the available sections of the catalogue, choose “Read online” to read immediately, or “Read offline” and download the Bookport app to be able to read books offline.

Libby

American Center Žilina comes to you with an opportunity of individual reader accounts in the digital eLibraryUSA. It is a digital collection of information sources full of high quality periodicals, newspapers, magazines, books, dissertation theses, and awarded films and videos. It has recently started providing access to the e-library Libby. Libby brings unlimited access to thousands of e-books, audiobooks, and magazines predominantly in the English language. Download the app Libby by Overdrive to use all functions.

Contact American Center Žilina (zilina@americanspaces.sk) with your full name and email to join eLibraryUSA. Afterwards, you will be emailed registration instructions. Registration, as well as the content of  the eLibrary, is only available in English

Before finishing your registration, you will be informed about what eLibraryUSA offers with a short video-guide. Next, you will need to complete a questionnaire agreeing with respecting the copyright law, not sharing your account with others, etc. After a successful completion, you will receive a certificate confirming you have been informed about everything neccessary. 

The second step is to apply for an eLibraryUSA account. Search for “American Center Žilina” in “Your American Spaces”.plagát

After a successful registration, we recommend downloading the Libby by Overdrive app from Google Play or App Store to use its services fully and comfortably. You can use all sources (Kanopy, BookFlix, PressReader) online – on your tablet, phone, or computer.