This video explains how to discover ebooks in the TCC Library collection as well as search within them to quickly scan their contents to know if the ebook will work for you. Read on below for more info.
The Discovery catalog on the TCC Library homepage is a great place to search (the main search bar) for ebooks. After typing your search terms and selecting "search," limit on the left side to "ebook" to filter our irrelevant results.
Select a title or a blue "View ebook" button to be taken to access options. Oftentimes, there is a "search within" type of feature or a search bar to search for key terms within the ebook. You'll be shown a list of pages/results where that word appears in the book. So, you can quickly scan a book without having to read the whole thing.
Use various spellings, synonyms, shortenings of words, and so on. Some search features within ebooks will not search for phrases or can only pull good results using a single word. It's important to try various searches before giving up!
