• Advantage Account:

  • A school or district can purchase eBooks OR audiobooks to use in just one school or the entire district.

  • These can be purchased through BOCES eBook CoSER.

• Classroom items:

  • Locally-owned content and any of the Always Available titles can be directly assigned to a specific student.

  • Assigned titles can be given a longer due date set by the school (up to 180 calendar days).

  • Can take notes or highlight and export to Google Drive, PDF, or text file. 

  • The built-in dictionary saves the words you look up into a personal glossary.

• Earn Badges by reading different titles and using different features within the app.

• Offers the Open Dyslexic font as an option

• Ability to lease titles on a short-term basis (3 or 6 months)

  • Great for an all-school read

  • Great for an AP class that just wants to use a specific title for one semester

  • Great for book clubs

  • Great for teachers who want to test out a new whole-class novel

• Will work on many types of mobile devices (iOS, Android, Kindle) and in any browser.

• Can download content to use when not connected to Internet/WiFi (for mobile devices only, not for reading in the browser)

• Reading stats: how many books you have read, total reading time, plus much more!

• Link a public library card and access public library content from OverDrive

• Upload locally created eBooks onto a school or district site. These titles will become part of the local OverDrive collection

• Purchase Read-Alongs, an ebook format with synced audio; titles are available in six different languages making them good for students learning another language.

• Teachers and students can easily recommend titles for purchase (this feature is in development)

• Create and upload original content in epub format (yearbook, literary magazine, project guide, etc.).

Librarians can push out any Always Available titles to whole classes--whether those titles are in the BOCES collection or in NY Reads. Titles will automatically appear on students' personal shelves and disappear at the end of the assignment period. For more information about assigning titles, please email slshelp@ocmboces.org with an ATTN: Andrea.  To have titles assigned send an email with the title, email of student(s) and the length of time to slshelp@ocmboces.org with an ATTN: Andrea.

Log in to Sora to see all the titles that are Always Available and can be assigned to your students. Be sure to add the NY Reads collection to your account so you can see all the titles we own.