TBPL in Electronic Overdrive Wanting To Bring You Along For The Read!
Terrace Bay Public Library Community Access Program (CAP) Youth Intern, Bryce St. Louis downloading e books to one of the library's new Sony e readers. Photo courtesy TBPL Copyright 2011.
TERRACE BAY, ON – Did you get a Kindle, a Kobo or another type of e-book reader for Christmas? Still trying to figure out how to download? Well, you can visit the library to learn how!
So, what’s downloading all about? The library has a growing collection of e products – both as audiobooks and electronically read books.
The titles are accessed through a platform we subscribe to called OVERDRIVE. Some of the titles belong to the Terrace Bay Public Library and some belong to a consortium consisting of many libraries in Ontario so you may have to wait a bit before it is your turn to download. To check out what titles we have, visit our website – terracebay.library.on.ca – and click on the Overdrive icon on our front page. You will need your library card barcode number and your PIN.
Audiobooks may be easily transferred to your MP3 player or iPod, and in some cases even burned to a CD. eBooks may be downloaded to Adobe Digital Editions – a software you download for free the first time you check out an e book – and then transferred to your eBook reader such as the Kobo or Sony reader or directly to your iPod, iPhone, or iPad with the OverDrive app. You get to choose either a 1 or 2 week loan period. The titles automatically expire so no renewals or overdue fines for content downloaded from a library service, at the end of the lending period, your license to the content terminates, and you may no longer use or access the content – thus the automatic expiry.
If you have burned to disc or portable device you are required to delete and or destroy any and all copies of the content.
The library also has Sony e-readers to lend out.
E-books are here to stay and I believe that paper and e-books will co-exist much like radio and television. It is indeed exciting times in the book world and the library will help you navigate through the maze. Visit us today!
