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Do you download? Join the ICPL staff for a demonstration of our Overdrive service on February 6 & 18 and March 2, 2010. We will show you how to download both eBooks and eAudio audiobooks. We’ll also show you a Sony eBook Reader. We can answer any questions about the service that you may have. Registration required. Register online @ http://calendar.icpl.org/ or call the Fiction Desk at 356-5200, option 4.
Learn how to download eBooks and eAudio audiobooks:
Saturday, February 6, 2010: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 18, 2010: 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010: 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Your 24/7 eMedia Collection
Free audio book downloads for PCs and portable devices, including iPods. Burn some eMedia titles to CD and listen in your car.
Easy to use!
Install free software at overdrive.icpl.org.
Check out audio book with your library card.
Download audio book to your computer.
Transfer to portable device or enjoy on your home PC.
Download station available on ICPL First Floor, behind Fiction Desk.
What are you listening to? Share your favorite audiobooks with your friends on Facebook with the new FB share link. Each audiobook title in our collection now has a link to e-mail a friend, share on FB, or send to Twitter. Try it out! Downloadable eAudio audiobooks are available free of charge to residents of Iowa City, rural Johnson County, University Heights and Hills. ICPL’s Overdrive service area will expand to offer eBook titles to Coralville residents in February 2010.
Iowa City Public Library continues to grow new collection of downloadable eBook titles!
The Iowa City Public Library has expanded its downloadable collection with the addition of EPUB eBooks at overdrive.icpl.org. From the comfort of home, ICPL card holders can browse the collection, check out, and download eBooks and more anytime, anywhere.
The Library’s opening collection now features more than 270 eBooks by popular authors such as David Sedaris, Neil Gaiman, Paulo Coelho, James Patterson, Ayn Rand, Stephenie Meyer, Kurt Vonnegut and more.
Similar to Adobe PDF eBooks, EPUB eBooks can be read on a PC or Mac® using the free, reader software Adobe® Digital Editions, and are also compatible with the Sony® Reader. EPUB features reflowable text and interactive graphic options, including the ability to resize the text and alter the display to fit any size screen. The Sony® Reader, designed to look and feel like a book, holds hundreds of eBooks and features a screen that reads like paper so it’s easy on the reader’s eyes.
To check out titles, users need a valid Iowa City Public Library card, computer, and Internet connection. Once downloaded, digital media can be enjoyed on a computer and transferred to supported portable devices. At the end of the loan period, titles automatically expire and are returned to the Library’s online collection. Users may return Adobe PDF and EPUB eBooks early.
Visit your virtual library branch to try it today! And please join us for one of our training sessions on Feb. 6 & 18 or March 2 to learn more about how to use eBooks.
For more information, contact:
Kara Logsden
Adult Services Coordinator
Iowa City Public Library
319-887-6007
klogsden@icpl.org
