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HathiTrust Digital Library

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

Downloading PDFs in Hathi

Downloading pages of text or whole books in Hathi is very straightforward and easy to accomplish. 

First, click into the Full view of the desired title. (Note that only titles with Full view available can be downloaded.  A "Limited (search only)" title falls within copyright protection and cannot be accessed or downloaded.) 

  • If you are already logged into Hathi as a Wesleyan user, you will see the following options:

 Follow the links to download the entire text or selected pages. 

  • If you are not yet logged in, you will see this message with the list of options:

You can log-in at the top right of the page, or Hathi will prompt you to do if you click Download whole book

Embedding Hathi books in webpages

Hathi makes it fairly simple to embed Full view books into a webpage, either in a scroll or a flip view.  In the Full view of any book, click on the Embed this book link at left.

Detailed embedding instructions