If you chose to read online, you can
Note: some publishers are not as generous as others, and may restrict online reading sessions, printing or copying. On the ebook information page, look at the information section to see if there any restrictions on copying or printing.
In a search result or on a book information page, click on 'Full Details' and 'Read Online' to read online.
Search result
When you click 'Read Online', you'll see a page like this:
There's quite a lot going on, so let's look at what all of the icons mean.
Click on this on the top left of the page, to show or hide the sidebar.
This is the sidebar
Book details (including copy and print allowances)
Table of Contents
Search within book
Show page thumbnails (click on a page thumbnail to go to that page)
Dictionary
On any of the sidebar options, click on the big X on the top right hand corner to close that option
This is the top bar
We'll look at each of the options in turn
Use the cursors to move forward (>) and backward (<) through the book.
You can enter a page number in the box, press enter and jump to that page. In the above image, we're on page number 13 The numbers in the brackets aren't that helpful, but the last number is the total number of pages in the book (note that some pages at the start and the end of the book don't have page numbers)
Pan scroll button - allows use of the scroll wheel on your mouse to scroll up and down through the pages
Click to zoom out (make the pages smaller)
Click to zoom in (make the pages bigger)
Page display button - click to change format to see one page (Single Page) or two pages (Double Page) at a time
For books that have images that cross over two pages, then choose the Cover Page view to ensure that they are shown correctly
Resize page. Use this to enable a better reading view on your device
There are two options: fit to height will resize the page to fit the whole page onto the screen, while fit to width will resize the page to fit to the width of the screen.
Page options: Selecting rotate left or rotate right will rotate the page to enable mages to be viewed in landscape mode
Selecting Copy Page will present a pop up showing how much of the book can be copied.
Clicking on see more details will show you the number of pages/page numbers which have already been copied.
Click this to change the page background colour,
There are eight colours to choose from
Click this to have the text read out loud.
You can also download this audio as an mp3 file to your device.
To download an mp3 file, click and click Download
The help button. Click here to go to the VLebooks website hep page