A collection of Chinese eBooks covering arts, agriculture, aerospace, business and management, economics, education, history, literature, language, healthcare, medicine, military science, philosophy, psychology, religion and other subjects.
目前, 方正阿帕比已经拓展了包括电子书、电子报、移动媒体等在内的新型数字媒体出版形式.日前，方正阿帕比联手天津科技出版社、中国对外翻译出版公司，举办“手机书、电子书、纸书”同步发行上市活动.
Currently, you can search and browse Apabi eBooks titles using public terminals at NLB libraries. To download and read Apabi eBooks you need to access the Apabi Library using your own computer. You also need to install the free Apabi Reader, which is available from:
http://nlb.ebooks.apabi.com/Reader/gb/ApabiReader.exe
Readers are allowed to borrow a maximum of four books at any time and for 21 days.
Available at all libraries and from home.
The eBrary's collection of electronic books spans all academic subject areas such as arts and humanities, social sciences, physical sciences and technology, business and economics, computers and IT, fine arts, law, life sciences and medicine. Includes additional premium content such as maps, journals, and reports.
A Malay eBook collection suitable for children. Children will learn from stories that touch upon the animal and insect kingdoms, as well as other Asian stories.
Note: Flash plug-in is required to view and hear Pelangi eBooks.
Available at all libraries and from home.
NetLibrary provides access to NLB's eContent collection, which is the digital version of books, journals, and database content. You can access eContent 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
A collection of popular ebooks, audio books, music and video titles including all kinds of genres and many general interest subjects.
A special player Overdrive Media Console is required to listen to the audio books from Overdrive.
To check out ebooks/audio books, you are required to type in your username and NRIC or Membership no. or FIN that you first used, when you registered for an NLB Digital Library account.
Available at all libraries and from home.
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Pelangi eBooks
A Malay eBook collection suitable for children. Children will learn from stories that touch upon the animal and insect kingdoms, as well as other Asian stories.
Note: Pelangi eBooks are now available under Koleksi Buku Elektronik Melayu.
Safari Tech Books Online from Proquest brings a wide array of electronic book titles in computer science, information technology, and related fields. Contains full-text versions of many technical titles from O'Reilly & Associates and The Pearson Technology Group. O'Reilly and Pearson imprints include Addison-Wesley, Alpha, Financial Times Prentice Hall, Cisco Press, New Riders, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall PTR, Que and Sams.
Limited to 4 concurrent access only.
Available at all libraries and from home.
TumbleBook Library is a collection of animated, talking picture books which teaches kids the joy of reading in a format they will love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you.
Flash plug-in is required to view and hear TumbleBooks.
Available at all libraries and from home.
TumbleReadables is a collection of large print electronic books that you read online by simply clicking a button. The collection includes classics like War and Peace, David Copperfield, and Robinson Crusoe, contemporary fiction like The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, Sophie's Choice by William Styron, and Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, non-fiction such as Winston Churchill's Their Finest Hour, as well as children's chapter books, and young adult novels.
Flash plug-in is required to view TumbleBooks.
Available at all libraries and from home.
TumbleTalkingBooks is a collection of audio books that you can listen to from any computer with an Internet connection. It includes unabridged versions of American and world literature classics, fiction, non-fiction, as well as books for children and young adults.
Flash plug-in is required to hear TumbleBooks.
Available at all libraries and from home.
Providing access to one of the world's largest digital archives of PDF eBooks and eDocuments, this collection is managed under the auspices of the World Public Library, a global coordinated effort to preserve and disseminate classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works. It is available in a comprehensive variety of genres including Action Adventure, Biography, Classics, Drama, Elizabethans, Fiction, Folklore, Children's, Gothic Tales, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Science, Pulp Fiction, Religion, Renaissance Thinkers and Science Fiction.
World e-Book Library does permit printing of some of their materials.
Kindly refer to the terms and conditions of printing and use, contained in the World e-Book Library website.
The Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view the ebooks.
Available at all libraries and from home.
