Announcing... Flashbooks!

Riverside County’s new Print-On-Demand Project

 The Riverside County Library System now offers print-on-demand services using our new Espresso Book Machine located in the Grace Mellman Library in Temecula. 

This service allows customers to request that books be printed out from a file of approximately 3 million titles.  Using the Espresso Book Machine, we can print a 300 page book in less than five minutes.  The book looks just like a paperback book from a bookstore. 

You can either purchase the books or request that the books be printed for their check-out and then retained in the library collection for others to use.   The cost of the books is based on a cover price, but usually about the same as books from a bookstore and sometimes much less expensive. 

The Espresso Book Machine can also print books from customer content.  If you have a document that you would like to turn into a book, we can discuss with you how this can be done.  If the book is not ready to print, we will charge a fee for formatting the material in addition to the cost of printing. 

Click on the link in the upper right hand corner to search the online line database of books that are available for on-demand printing.

If you would like to see the machine in operation, you can visit during the hours that the machine is in operation: Monday 4-6 p.m., and Tuesday through Saturday 10-2.

Flashbooks was made possible by a Library Services and Technology Act grant from the California State Library.