Read an ebook or listen to an eaudiobook on your device wherever you are. All you need is your library card, a device, and internet access.
You can access two digital collections with your library membership, Libby and BorrowBox. These collections are easy to use, items are available 24/7, and books are conveniently returned automatically when due.
Check across both collections if you are seeking a specific title. You will often find a book in both collections and they may have different availability.
Start using Libby
Read ebooks and listen to eaudiobooks instantly from our library. Download the free Libby app on your phone or tablet.
Download Libby | Getting started with Libby | Libby Help
Like magazines? You can access Digital Magazines using Libby also.
Libby has more than 3000 magazine titles in more than 15 languages.
Find out more about borrowing digital magazines with Libby
Start using BorrowBox
BorrowBox is home to the greatest Australian and international authors of the world’s best ebooks and eaudiobooks.
Collection |
What you can borrow |
How many items |
How long |
Libby |
ebooks & eaudiobooks |
15 items total |
21 days |
BorrowBox |
ebooks & eaudiobooks |
8 ebooks + 8 eaudiobooks |
14 days |
Getting Started
- What you need
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An NT public library card number and your password.
Not a member? Join online. Forgot your password? Reset it.A compatible device with internet access.
The relevant free software or app installed on your device.
- for Macs and PCs download Adobe Digital Editions. You will need to register for an Adobe User ID also. Titles can then be transferred to a variety of ebook devices.
- for compatible tablets or smartphones: the Libby app and/or BorrowBox app which can be downloaded free from your device’s app store (e.g. iTunes or Google Play).
- How it works
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1. Browse or search the digital collections: Libby or BorrowBox .
2. Download to a tablet using the Libby app or the BorrowBox app; OR Transfer to ereading devices from your computer using Adobe Digital Editions.
3. You can borrow up to 8 ebooks and 8 eaudiobooks from BorrowBox. You can borrow up to 15 ebooks or eaudiobooks from Libby.
4. Maximum loan period is 21 days (Libby) or 14 days (BorrowBox).
5. Titles will be automatically returned at the end of the lending period.
Ebook Troubleshooting
Having trouble accessing the digital collections? These quick fixes resolve most issues customers have using ebooks.
- Confirm your log in details are correct.
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- To log in, use your library card number, including the '000' at the start of the number, and your password.
- Double check you have the right password. Try logging in to your library account to check that your password is correct. If it does not work, reset your password. Then try to log into the digital library again.
- Check your app is up to date.
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- Visit your App Store.
- Search for the app (Libby or BorrowBox).
- If the button says 'Update', you will need to update the app. Once you have updated the app, try logging in again.
- Check your operating system is up to date.
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- Go to 'Settings' in your device.
- Find 'software update' and update, try logging in again.
- Still not working?
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- Try turning your device off and on again.
- Try deleting the app and reloading it.
- If the app is still not working, please contact us for assistance. Library staff are available Monday to Friday 9am-5pm (excluding public holidays) to assist you.


Beautiful
Danielle Steel
A renowned supermodel's world is torn apart in an instant sending her on an unexpected journey of discovery in Beautiful, a masterful novel from the international number one bestselling author Danielle Steel.


Cocaine blues
Kerry Greenwood
This is where it all started! The first classic Phryne Fisher mystery, featuring our delectable heroine, cocaine, communism and adventure. Phryne leaves the tedium of English high society for Melbourne, Australia, and never looks back.


Eden
Candice Fox
Most police duos run on trust, loyalty, and the desire to see killers in court. But Detective Frank Bennett’s partner, the enigmatic Eden Archer, has nothing to offer him but danger.


Girl, Erased
Blake Pierce
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Go tell the bees that I am gone
Diana Gabaldon
It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser's Ridge. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible. Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot.


Here's to us
Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
Ben has spent his first year of college working on his fantasy manuscript with his writing partner Mario, who is a great Spanish tutor, and an even better kisser. So why can't he stop thinking about the fact that Arthur's back in town two years after they called it quits?


Once there were wolves
Charlotte McConaghy
Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but Aggie, too, unmade by the terrible secrets that drove the sisters out of Alaska.


One True Loves
Taylor Jenkins Reid
In her twenties, Emma marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. They build a life for themselves, living life to the fullest and seizing every opportunity for adventure. On their first wedding anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter over the Pacific when it goes missing. Just like that, Jesse is gone forever. Years later, now in her thirties, Emma runs into an old friend, Sam, and finds herself falling in love again. When Emma and Sam get engaged, it feels like Emma's second chance at happiness. That is, until Jesse is found.


Our Country Friends
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Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation-a novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayal, a book that reads like a great Russian novel, or Chekhov on the Hudson, by a novelist The New York Times calls "one of his generation's most original writers."


Our Dark Duet
V.E Schwab
Kate Harker is a girl who isn't afraid of the dark. She's a girl who hunts monsters. And she's good at it. August Flynn is a monster who can never be human, no matter how much he once yearned for it. He's a monster with a part to play. And he will play it, no matter the cost.


Raven Black
Anne Cleeves
Raven Black is the first book in Ann Cleeves' Shetland series - which is now the major BBC1 drama starring Douglas Henshall, Shetland. It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies buried beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a vivid splash of colour on the white ground, ravens circling above. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbour Catherine Ross.


Sea of Tranquillity
Emily St. John Mandel
The award-winning author of Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel returns with a novel of time travel that precisely captures the reality of our current moment. Sea of Tranquility is a virtuoso performance and an enormously exciting offering from one of our most remarkable writers.


The Dance Tree
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
In Strasbourg, in the boiling hot summer of 1518, a plague strikes the women of the city.


The First Astronomers
Duane Hamacher with Elders and Knowledge Holders
The First Astronomers is the first book to reveal the rich knowledge of the stars and the planets held by First Peoples around the world. Our eyes have been drawn away from the skies to our screens. We no longer look to the stars to forecast the weather, predict the seasons or plant our gardens. Most of us cannot even see the Milky Way. But First Nations Elders around the world still maintain this knowledge, and there is much we can learn from them.


The Heart Principle
Helen Hoang
When violinist Anna Sun accidentally achieves career success with a viral YouTube video, she finds herself incapacitated and burned out from her attempts to replicate that moment. And when her long-time boyfriend announces that he wants an open relationship before making a final commitment, a hurt and angry Anna decides if he wants an open relationship, then she does, too. Translation: She's going to embark on a string of one-night stands. The more unacceptable the men, the better.


The Man in the Bunker
Rory Clements
In the gripping new spy thriller from the Sunday Times best-selling author of Hitler's Secret, a Cambridge spy must find the truth behind Hitler's death. But exactly who is the man in the bunker?


The Seven Sisters
Lucinda Riley
The Seven Sisters tells the tale of six young women, all adopted by an enigmatic man for mysterious reasons. When he dies suddenly, he leaves behind a clue for each sister, and the past begins to unfold.


The uncaged sky
Kylie Moore-Gilbert
On September 12, 2018 British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested at Tehran Airport by Iran’s feared Islamic Revolutionary Guards. Convicted of espionage in a shadowy trial presided over by Iran’s most notorious judge, Dr Moore-Gilbert was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Incarcerated in Tehran’s Evin and Qarchak prisons for 804 days, this is the full and gripping account of her harrowing ordeal.


White Noise
Mercedes Mercier
When prison psychologist Dr Laura Fleming is assigned charismatic inmate Justin Jones to assess for parole, alarm bells ring. Working with some of the state's most damaged criminals, she knows Jones is too dangerous to release, but he's got everyone fooled . . . She needs proof.