Here's a perfect excuse to focus on our most popular free Audio eBook service, the OverDrive Audio Book collection. There's a wonderfully wide range of audio books in the Overdrive Download Collection. Popular fiction, history, young adult, you name it. Overdrive, though, isn't just audio eBooks. Keep an eye out for different formats (text ebooks, video, classical music) in your search results - some of your favorite titles will not be available as audio downloads. You should also know that most downloads (all but the text eBooks) ask you to install the Overdrive Media Console. How do you download audio books?
If you've got a computer and high speed internet at home, it's easy to install the Overdrive software.
If you don't have a computer and high speed internet at home, you'll be able to use one of the public PCs in our libraries.
Explore the Collection Okay, so where do you find Overdrive downloadable audio books?
First off, there's an Overdrive catalog on our website - ebooks.kcls.org will take you straight in. You can also get there via the ebooks-Audio link found on our main website menu.
Overdrive titles are also in our OPAC and in Catalog Explorer. It's especially easy to limit your search results in Catalog Explorer - choose 'e-book - audio' from the format refinement option on the right side of the screen.
Today we'd like you to focus on the Overdrive catalog - get a feel for the collection and get ready to download ebooks on your new mp3 player in just a few weeks' time.
Discovery Excercise
If you need a visual kick-start - should you be having trouble making sense of our ebook site, feel free to take a look at this hastily-produced 3 and a half minute demonstration. |
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