Ebsco Host E books

I have procrastinated long enough. There is another week's challenge posted and I have yet to do the one from last week. Ebsco Host presents me with a great challenge. I do not find it to be particularly user friendly and I think for our patrons, 7th & 8th graders it would be overwhelming and thus they would default to google. As far as e-books go, there are some that are available which would be useful for research and reading but I found that the platform was difficult to read. Our students are working on science projects now related to the ocean. I searched for items I could recommend to them and found some that would be useful but I could not figure out how to read them without having a pop-up for each page.

Perhaps I am doing something wrong. I think for our purposes this database would be best for our teachers to find books, articles, etc. to present to students or to read on their own to learn more about the subject they are teaching. There are many resources available on the site which would be beneficial to those who do not have access to a large library. If by chance a student were to use this database--the highlighted pages are a very nice feature especially when it comes to common core standard:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.7.1 Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Students can see on Ebsco how this is done--taking a relevant passage from a book. This feature might be as valuable as actually reading the whole text. Teachers can take the students to this site, search a topic and see what books are available and what passages are relevant to the topic to demonstrate how passages support a character analysis, opinion, or position on a topic.

For the serious researcher this database might prove to be very helpful, but for the typical student in middle school, I feel there are many more e-book platforms which provide a much better ease of use.