Downloadable Library Materials

Borrow and download or stream books, audiobooks, magazines, movies and music for FREE with your Fremont Library Card!

If your card is from another library, you must use the apps provided by your home library.

eBooks & Audiobooks

LIBBY/OVERDRIVE

Overdrive (Libby App) is the only e-book provider for libraries that also includes access to Kindle books, although not all eBooks are playable on Kindle readers. The ebooks and audiobooks in Fremont's Libby/Overdrive app have all been curated by Fremont Librarians.

Each cardholder may have 5 checkouts at a time. Items may be renewed two days before the due date if no one else is waiting. You can return titles early to free up your number of available checkouts, and you can place holds on unavailable titles as well as those that you recommend through the Overdrive website.

HOOPLA

Most of the Hoopla catalog is available for instant borrows, making it great for when you want to read the sequel right now! There's also an easy "Kids Mode" that will hide adult titles from view.

Each cardholder may borrow 20 total Hoopla items per month. A new set of borrows are issued the 1st of each month; unused borrows do not roll over. We have also added Flex Borrows that are one person at a time, limit 5 borrows at a time of any Flex titles.

To read books or listen to audiobooks offline, you must use the mobile app.

Magazines & Full-Image Newspapers

LIBBY MAGAZINES

Choose from over 4,000 popular magazine titles from around the world. Borrows of magazines do not count towards your total of 5 allowed eBook checkouts at a time.

In the Libby App for Apple or Libby App for Android you can click "Subscribe" to get automatic downloads of the latest issue of the magazine to your shelf when it is released, so you never miss an issue. 

PRESS READER

Read online or download the app to access newspapers from around the country, including the Chicago Tribune, as well as popular magazines from around the world.

NEWSBANK

America's News carries smaller local papers from around the country in a database (text only) format that is searchable and printable. The library also pays for the image version of these local newspapers:

Chicago Sun-Times               Daily Herald             

Movies, TV Shows & Documentaries

KANOPY

Stream movies through an internet browser, TV or mobile app. The collection offers more than 30,000 independent and documentary films from The Criterion Collection, The Great Courses, and thousands of independent filmmakers.

You get 10 play credits per month. Each movie costs one credit to play. 

Play credits reload on the 1st of the month. Unused credits do not roll over. Once you start playing a movie, you have 72 hours to complete it. You can watch the video as many times as you'd like in that 72-hour period.

Kanopy Kids offers quality children's video such as PBS kids. Kids plays do not count against your monthly play credits.

HOOPLA

Stream movies & television shows through an internet browser or the Hoopla app. Movies & TV shows check out for 3 days and can be downloaded for offline use when using the mobile app. There's an easy "Kids Mode" that will hide adult titles from view.

Each cardholder may borrow 20 total Hoopla items per month. A new set of borrows are issued the 1st of each month; unused borrows do not roll over.

STREAMING APPS

Not all movies are available on DVD or Blu-ray, so the library offers Roku devices for checkout. Each Roku offers a different streaming service so you can catch up on the most popular movies and shows your friends are talking about!