Digital Collections

With these digital collections the library never closes, checkout a book, learn a language, download and listen to music 24/7. All with your Princeton Public Library card.

eLibraryNJ

 eBooks are now compatible with Amazon Kindle

 

Audiobooks

eLibraryNJ

Browse downloadable audiobooks and eBooks at eLibraryNJ. Enjoy these collections on your computer (PC or Mac) or on selected portable devices (including MP3, ipod) and also download directly to your iPod phone, iPad, Blackberry, or Android. Browse audiobooks to find newly added titles or iPod titles. eBooks range from computers to study guides to Romance and Young Adult fiction. Please note to use eLibraryNJ audiobooks you will have to download Overdrive Media Console.

Checkout a maximum of 5 books at time, for 7 or 10 days depending on your preference. No overdue fees, books are automatically returned to the library at the end of lending period.  You will need a valid Princeton Public Library card to checkout books.

 
eBooks

eLibraryNJ

Browse downloadable eBooks at eLibraryNJ. Enjoy these collections on your computer (PC or Mac) or transfer the title to a compatible eBook reader (including Amazon Kindle, Sony and Nook). eBooks range from computers to study guides to Romance and Young Adult fiction. Please note to use eLibraryNJ eBooks you will have to download Adobe Digital Editions.

Step-by-Step instructions for downloading eBooks to a Kindle

Checkout a maximum of 5 books at time, for 7 or 10 days depending on your preference. No overdue fees, books are automatically returned to the library at the end of lending period.  You will need a valid Princeton Public Library card to checkout books.

 

The TumbleBookLibrary is a collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books) with fiction, non-fiction and foreign language titles, Read-Alongs (chapter books with sentence highlighting and narration but no animation), Ebooks and Audio Books which may be viewed online or downloaded for 90 days, and Tumble Puzzles & Games.

 
Music

Download free music select from thousands of songs from the Sony Music catalog. Nothing to download, compatible with PCs, Macs, MP3 and iPod. Search the collection by artist, title or genre.

You will be able to download a maximum of 3 songs per week using your Princeton Public Library card. Create a Wish List to keep track of what you want to download next.

 
 

Stream audio from wide variety of genres from Alexander Street Press. Click here to gain access to the entire collection or click on one of the icons below to go to your favorite collection.

Streamed audio, you will need a valid Princeton Public Library card to access the collection.

 
 

Stream audio from the American Song (Alexander Street Press) collection. This collection includes music that relates to almost every walk of America life, ethnic group, and every time period. Now includes the African American Song database, with recordings by the top fifty names in the history of black American music.

Streamed audio, you will need a valid Princeton Public Library card to access the collection.

 
 

Stream audio from the Classical Music Library (Alexander Street Press). Music ranges from Medieval to contemporary, from choral to symphonies, operas and the avant-garde. Library can be searched by composer, song title.

Streamed audio, you will need a valid Princeton Public Library card to access the collection.

 
 

Stream audio from the Contemporary World Music (Alexander Street Press) collection. This collections takes listeners around the globe to experience the vibrancy, history, customs, politics, personalities, struggles and joys of diverse peoples and cultures.

Streamed audio, you will need a valid Princeton Public Library card to access the collection.

 
 

Stream audio from the Jazz collection (Alexander Street Press), the largest and most comprehensive collection of jazz available online - with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums and genres.

Streamed audio, you will need a valid Princeton Public Library card to access the collection.

 
 

Stream audio from the Smithsonian Global Sound (Alexander Street Press) collection. This collection of American Folk music covers icons such as Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and hundreds of others.

Streamed audio, you will need a valid Princeton Public Library card to access the collection.

 
 
Movies  

Films on Demand

Films On Demand is a web-based digital video delivery service that allows you to view streaming videos from Films Media Group anytime, anywhere, 24/7. Choose from more than 6,500 educational titles in many subject areas relating to the humanities and social sciences. These videos can be viewed in the library, a classroom or at home.
Funding made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities
 
Languages  

 

Mango Languages

Mango is an online language learning system that teaches real conversation skills for practical communication. Through fun and engaging interactive lessons, Mango makes learning a new language fast, easy and incredibly effective. The system is completely web-based and remotely accessible, so you can learn anywhere you have an internet connection. As you listen to and repeat after native speakers, you'll learn more than just words and phrases. Languages include Spanish, French, Greek, Japanese, ESL, to name a few.

 

                                                                                                                                           Back to top