Books

Books provide on-demand, instant access to the complete text of thousands of best-in-class online books. Books are available from within channels, or you can launch them directly from your search results. You must scroll to the bottom of each page for the page to be considered complete, and to complete a book, you must read at least 50% of the content.

Book Reader

The book player has many components to aid in your learning experience.

  1. Contents: This is the table of contents for the book. It shows a list of the chapters within the book and their order. You can collapse this panel for a bigger viewing area.
  2. Overview: The Overview tab displays a brief description of the book's content, information about the author, expertise level, and ISBN.
  3. Action icons: The action icons vary depending on how your site is configured. You may see:

    • Share: The Share icon only displays when the Allow sharing of content setting is selected. Select the Share icon to share the entire book or just the selected chapter or section with peers by email or via a direct link.
    • Thumbs up: Shows how many likes a course has. Select this icon if you like the book.
    • More actions: Select the more action icon, , to add the book to your playlist so you can easily find and view it later.
  4. Control bar: Allows you to control the viewing of the book. You can.

    • Hide table of contents: Closes the table of contents pain for wider viewing.
    • Full screen:Select the icon to have the book show at full screen.
    • Adjust Font: Change the size of the font on screen for your best reading.