NetLibrary

NetLibrary is just about as easy to use as our OPAC. It allows for searching by the typical fields or author, title, subject, and keyword. As an added bonus it does full text searching, too. Something that's usually reserved for something like Google.

Once you decide on a book, it's relatively easy to navigate. The side bar will get you to the different areas of the book such as the contents, index, or a particular chapter.

Some of the quirks of NetLibrary that I've found is that it only allows for one copy of the eBook to be open at a time. I tried to show a coworker a particular book once, and NetLibrary would not allow two concurrent copies to be opened. Besides not being able to download, it also limits the amount of text that you can copy & paste at one time. I've also noticed that it displays book contents as a PDF but you must use the NetLibrary buttons at the top of the window to navigate, and not the typical Adobe Acrobat buttons in the bottom of the window.

But a NetLibrary copy of a book still beats no copies at all. And, I think that it's easy enough to navigate for anyone, and has a short learning curve.