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Digital Library
Your Hillsboro City Library card grants access to free e-books for your reading pleasure. In addition, you will have the ability to listen to digital audiobooks, read magazines, comics, graphic novels and watch movies all on your smart phone, tablet, home computer, laptop or e-reader.
Once electronic items are due back, they automatically return. So you never have to worry about late fees!
Need help getting started?
Drop by our circulation desk any time during business hours and one of our staff will help you set up your account and assist you with downloading the applications or check out the linked FAQ pages and instructions next to each service.
New Electronic Materials
Biblio+
Access more than 2,300 movies, TV shows and documentaries right in your CloudLibrary app, ad-free.
All movies, TV shows and documentaries are available for immediate and unlimited simultaneous use.
At this time, streaming is only available in the CloudLibray app and on desktop or laptop devices. For help on streaming to your smart TV, use this article.
Download the cloudLibrary app for for iOS or Android devices.
CloudLibrary NewsStand
cloudLibrary NewsStand is a digital magazine and newspaper service. With an expanding catalog that currently contains over 7,000 titles in more than 60 languages, NewsStand is the perfect way to gain access to your favorite magazines. All magazines and newspapers are available immediately for unlimited simultaneous use.
E-Read Texas on Biblioboard
A collection of e-books from the E-Read Texas Unlimited Collection, including popular non-fiction such as travel, nutrition and health, and gardening, along with adult and young adult fiction. Accessible anywhere in Texas; no login required.
eBook lending and tools to help libraries and their community to create, share, and discover local content in an unlimited, simultaneous use experience. Get these materials on your mobile device through SimplyE.
Biblioboard is provided to patrons of the Hillsboro City Library through the Texas State Library & Archives Commission.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.
CloudLibrary
cloudLibrary makes it easy to discover the content you want to read. Whether on the web, a tablets, or your mobile device. Use cloudLibrary to browse digital shelves created by the Hillsboro Library or by filtering by genres that interest you. Gain access to thousands of e-books, and audiobooks from libraries around the state, including ours.
For assistance check this FAQ, or these videos.
Comics Plus
Access more than 20,000 comics, graphic novels and manga with Comics Plus in the cloudLibrary app or through the Comics Plus app.
All comics, graphic novels and manga are available immediately for unlimited, simultaneous use.
Download the cloudLibrary app for for iOS or Android devices or get the Library pass app for iOS or Android devices.
SimplyE
The SimplyE app is available for mobile devices running iOS and Android.
SimplyE is provided to patrons of the Hillsboro City Library through the Texas State Library & Archives Commission.