OverDrive to e-Reader

1. OverDrive to e-Reader Less than you think you want More than you really need

2. Al Carlsonalcarlson713@yahoo.com

3. The Al Carlson Mobile Research Team

4. The Basics of Today’s Webinar • OverDrive • Find what you want • Get it • Read it on your chosen device • PowerPoint • Bullet points • Recaps

5. Think outside the container • Xerox • Kleenex • Book

6. Some Historic Containers of Books • Clay Tablet • Papyrus • Scroll • Codex • AKA the “Book” • (About 1440 AD, or over 500 years ago)

7. Small Library Building

8. 32 GigaBytes

9. 32 GigaBytes

10. Two libraries

11. How much reading does each “container” give you? • 500KB per title • 64,000 titles per card • 1 book per day • 175 Years

12. Do the math

13. They grow up so fast! E-readers

14. New OverDrive Media Console logo

15. iPad and iPhone

16. DROID!!

17. Galaxy Tab 7

18. Google Nexus 7

19. HTC G2 Phone

20. There’s an App for that! • For all of these devices and others like them: • Get the OverDrive Media Console App • Install it • Read the minimal instructions • Use it • Additional help • Click on the HELP button at your library’s OverDrive site and choose your specific device

21. Amazon Kindles

22. Let’s do this live at: • http://hcplc.org

23. Kindle Recap • Browse to your library’s OverDrive site • Sign in • Advanced search for Kindle Format • Check out and Get For Kindle • Bounce to Amazon web site • Assign to chosen Kindle • Sync via Wi-Fi to download the e-book to your device

24. The Penguin Exception • Penguin—one of the “Big Six” publishers—hates Amazon. • They are “punishing” Amazon by forcing you(your patrons) to download Penguin e-books to your PC and sideload them to your Kindle. • Here’s an example

25. The Help

26. The message

27. The fix

28. Nook Classic

29. Nook Simple Touch

30. Sony Stuff

31. Kobo Reader

32. Nooks and Kobos, and othersOh, my! • Here are the steps a first timer needs to go through, just when he knows the least about it. • 1. Go to his local OverDrive site and log in. • 2. Find and check out an Adobe EPUB format book. • 3. Install Adobe Digital Editions software • 4. Download the book from the OverDrive site to his Adobe-linked PC and watch it appear in Adobe Digital Editions • 5. Get an Adobe ID and maybe an email address • 6. Connect his Nook or similar eReader to his PC • 7. Side load the book from his PC to the eReader • 8. Whew!!

33. Let’s go live again at the OverDrive catalog….

35. Choose One

36. Fill in the required fields

37. Yahoo or Gmail or MSN

38. Now fill in the fields

39. Now sign in

40. Or on this form…

41. Enjoy in ADE

42. Sideloading • “Sideloading” is transferring an eBook from a PC to an eReader • Several ways to do it • Adobe Digital Editions is the slickest way for OverDrive library eBooks

43. Sideloading—not rocket science

44. Connection close-up:Pre-school Jigsaw Puzzle skills

45. Sony Reader Connection

46. Back to the Nook

47. Once again, let’s go live….

48. Recap • Hundreds of devices; three basic families • App Enabled • Kindle e-ink • EPUB e-ink family • Patron needs library card, e-reader, and (usually) his own PC • OverDrive provides excellent online help • Use it!! • New devices and options emerge almost daily

49. Resources • http://sites.google.com/a/tblc.org/digital-delight • alcarlson713@yahoo.com

50. Questions? • http://sites.google.com/a/tblc.org/digital-delight • alcarlson713@yahoo.com