Downloading Audiobooks Instruction

Downloading Audiobooks from library to MP3, iPad, iPod and iPhone

1. Have iTunes installed (www.apple.com/itunes)
2. Go to your own library's website
3. Downloadable Media
4. Click “Overdrive Media Console”
5. Click “Download Now”
6. Click “Run”
7. Setup wizard
8. back to Downloadable Media catalog
9. Search (choose Overdrive WMA Audiobook)
10. Type your search keyword (i.e. James Patterson)
11. Availability (see PC, WMA, iPod, etc highlighted)
12. Add to cart
13. Proceed to checkout
14. Sign in (type library card number and password/PIN)
15. Choose “Lending period” and confirm checkout
16. Download
17. if meet troubleshoot/problem, click “upgrade” then “ok” click” Overdrive Media Console security upgrade” and back to 16. Download
18. all checkbox checked
19. Transfer (Overdrive Media Console)
20. Check “manually manage music and videos”
21. Next; Finish

***Now the user can see the checked out item show up in Audiobook folder or music or song folder or playlists; the audiobook is now on the user’s device***

Reference:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNSp784hm5o

How to Download Library ebooks to Nook

Nook Instruction/Overdrive

1. What you have to have:

Nook and USB Cable

A Computer

Adobe Digital Editions

Library Card and password/Pin

2. Go to your own library's website

3. Downloadable Media

4. Adobe Digital Editions (eBook)

5. Download Adobe

Install

Get Adobe ID (Get Adobe online)

Sign in to authorize Adobe (activate) then press “finished.”

Use USB Cable and plug in your Nook to your computer

Authorize Device then press “finished”

6. Go back to Overdrive Browser (Library Downloadable Media catalog)

7. Sign in: Library card number and password/PIN.

8. Advanced search

9. Select the format “Adobe EPUB eBook”

10. Add to Cart/When item is available; Place A Hold when item not available

11. Proceed to checkout

12. Lending period options: 21-day, 14-day, 7-day; Confirm Check out

13. Download

Open Adobe Digital Edition

Chang Reading View to Go to Library View

Drag the book to Nook (at the left side with Nook icon)

***Return and delete item before due date

            Item options to early return borrowed item (top left of the borrowed item)

            Click Delete item***

***Youtube to watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-joS_KiAa8***

How to Download Library ebooks to Kindle

Kindle Instruction

1. Be sure you have the following:
1. Kindle
2. Computer (Not necessary if you have a Kindle Fire)
3. Library Card and password/PIN
4. Amazon account user name and password

2. Go to your own library's website
1. Click on “Downloadable Media”
2. Click on “Advanced Search”
3. For “Format”, select “Kindle”

***To limit to e-books with available copies, select “Only Show Titles With Copies Available.”***

3. Downloading an e-book
1. Decide on e-book, find “Kindle Book”, and click on “Add to Cart.”
2. Click on “Proceed to Check Out.”
3. Sign in with library card number and password/PIN
4. Pick “lending period”: 21 days, 14 days, 7 days

      e. Click on “Confirm Checkout”

4. Click on “Get for Kindle”.  This opens the Amazon Web Site
1. Click on “Get Library Book”
2. Sign in to Amazon account(e-mail and password)
3. Drop down menu, “Deliver to:”

                                                              i.      Registered Kindle

                                                           ii.      Transfer to a computer

                                                         iii.      Register a new Kindle

      d. Click on “Download Now.”

Delivery is either wirelessly or via USB from your computer to Kindle

If you send to a Registered Kindle, the next time you connect to WIFI, the e-book will download to the patron’s Kindle.

5. If you don’t have a wireless signal, you can choose to “download now”.
1. Save File
2. Saved to downloads folder
3. Can open up in Windows Explorer
4. Go into downloads where you can see the title of the e-book
5. Copy the title of the e-book
6. Go to Kindle, which is plugged into the computer
7. Go to My Documents
8. Paste in the title which is then available to read in Kindle

6. When finished with the book and you want to return earlier:
1. Go to Amazon.com and click on “Your Account”
2. Go to “Manage Your Kindle”

This will have a list of e-books checked out from the library

3. Go to “Actions” tab
4. Select “Return this Book”
5. Click “Yes”
6. “Actions”
7. To delete this book from my library, Go to “Actions”
8. “Delete from library”
9. Click “Yes”

Youtube watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9OxDGpEGeY&feature=plcp

How to Download Library ebooks to iPad

iPad Instruction/Overdrive e-books

1.    What you have to have:
          a)  iPad
          b)  A library card and password/PIN

          c)  An Adobe ID

2.    Installation of OverDrive
          a)  Go to App store, search for “Overdrive” 

          b)  Find “OverDrive Media Console”; press free button

          c)  Press the “Install App” button to install the  

               OverDrive application. The OverDrive icon  will 

               automatically show on the screen.

3.     Authorize Adobe: Sign in or Register

4.    Press the OverDrive icon   on the screen
       Find the “Get book +” at the top right corner

5.    Press “Add a Library +” to browse for libraries

       Users can simply type his/her own library name. Once find the

       library press to add it to your list

6.    Press your library's catalog shown on the top left   

       corner will lead the user to the ibrary’s catalog. Click “browse” icon then
      “Browse all Adobe EPUB eBook Titles”

7.    Once the user finds the ebook s/he looks for, press “add to cart”

8.    Press “Proceed to Checkout”

9.    Log in  “Library card number” and “password/PIN”

10.   Allow to modify “lending period”: 21 day checkout, 14 day checkout or 7 day  

        checkout.

11. Press “confirm check out”

12. Download. On the download page, the user will find the borrowed item and has to press “Download” to download the item to the user’s iPad. Then it will go back to the Overdrive page and user is ready to read the downloaded ebook.
***On the OverDrive page the user will find “+”
The “+” allows the user to return/delete the ebook earlier***

Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7UbvGwUxfw&feature=plcp