OverDrive to
e-reader
As difficult as “one, two, three”
Notes to Self
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Share Monitor 2 in presentation mode
Put sign on front door
Use a timer
Sign in to Amazon ahead of time
Have ADE open and minimized
Have your Nook and its cable ready
If you have time after the program, take them
back to OD and show holds and rating titles
OverDrive to
e-reader
As difficult as “one, two, three”
Al Carlson
alcarlson713@yahoo.com
The Al Carlson Mobile Research Team
The Basics of Today’s Webinar
• OverDrive
–Find what you want
–Get it
–Read it on your chosen device
Your Questions
• Type them in as you think of them
• We’ll answer them at the end of the program
– (to make sure we cover all the important points
before we run out of time.)
• A brief bit of background material to set the
stage for today’s presentation….
Think outside the container
• Ms. Stock Photo Person is
carrying four containers
that she calls “books”
• She calls the Ricoh
photocopier in her office
a “Xerox”
• And she has Northern
tissues in her purse that
she calls “Kleenex”
• She has lots of company
in that
Some Historic Containers of Books
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Clay Tablet
Papyrus
Vellum Scroll
Codex
– AKA the “Book”
– (About 100 AD, well
before Gutenberg)
Small Library Building: a container of containers
30,000 books?
256 GigaByte SD Card
512,000 e-books
A book a day for 1,400 years
So, which “container” holds more books?
And which type you bet on for long term survival?
• So, how do you read and enjoy the
books stored on this nifty new type of
container?
E-readers!
• They grow up so fast!
• And they’re still just toddlers!
• Here are some “examples” of the types we’ll
cover today
E-Ink Kindles
E-Ink Nooks
Other e-Ink Readers
Sony Reader
Kobo
iPads and iPhones
Not e-ink!
Galaxy Tabs
Also not e-ink
Google Nexus 7
Not e-ink either
Smart Phones
E-ink? No!
Kindle Fire
Nowhere near e-ink
One Two Three
• Lots of specific examples
• Only Three “types”
– E-Ink Kindles
– E-Ink everybody else
– Not E-Ink
E-Ink Kindle
Short Version
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Browse to OverDrive library web site on a PC
Find and check out a Kindle e-book
Throw it over to Amazon’s web site
Assign it to your Kindle
• I’ll show that in detail in a moment
E-Ink Everybody Else
Short Version
• Browse to OverDrive library web site on a PC
• Find and check out an EPUB e-book
– Install Adobe Digital Editions (Only once)
• Download the e-book to your PC
– Get an Adobe ID (Only once)
– Authorize your PC (Only once)
• Sideload the e-book to your e-reader
• I’ll cover this in detail in a moment
Not e-Ink: Short Version
•There’s an App for
that!
There’s an App for that!
Apple stuff
Android stuff
OverDrive Media Console
There’s an App for that!
• For Apple and Android devices:
– 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
Apps and Adobe Digital Editions:
one time petty annoyance
• App users do have to install Adobe Digital
Editions one time, just like Nook, Sony, Kobo,
etc. users
• I’ll cover that later in this webinar
One Two Three
• Lots of specific examples
• Only Three “types”
– E-Ink Kindles
– E-Ink everybody else
– Not E-Ink [Done]
Amazon Kindles
Kindles are their own ecosystem
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They have their own format (AZW)
They have their own DRM
They don’t use an App
They pull the OverDrive e-book into the
Amazon ecosystem and manipulate it there
• Let’s take a look
Amazon Sign In
Create an account, if you don’t have one
Browse to OverDrive; Sign In;
Find the Help button
My Account
OverDrive Help Screen
Text, videos, and
possibly a Vulcan mind
meld by now
OverDrive Library Catalog
Advanced Search for Kindle Format:
Instant Gratification Method
Kindle Format Search Results
Click the correct Add to Cart
Double check; go to Checkout
Confirm Checkout
Get for Kindle
Because you signed in at Amazon moments ago,
you will be zapped to Amazon Library Loan
Added to Kindle Server; ready to sync
with your Kindle “device”
Kindle Recap
• Visit Amazon and sign in first
– Create a free account if necessary
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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
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
The Help
The message behind the red link
The fix
One Two Three
• Lots of specific examples
• Only Three “types”
– E-Ink Kindles [Done]
– E-Ink everybody else
– Not E-Ink [Done]
Nook Classic
Nook Simple Touch
Sony Stuff
Kobo Reader
Nooks and Kobos, and others!
Oh, my!
• Here are the steps a first timer needs to go through, just when he
knows the least about it.
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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 Adobelinked 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 e-reader to his PC
7. Sideload the book from his PC to the e-reader
8. Whew!!
(App users have to do the one-time Adobe
ID and authorization thing, too!)
Fire up your PC and browse to “your”
OverDrive Library
Sign In; find the Help button;
Choose Advanced Search
Advanced Search for EPUB Format
“Instant gratification for the new user” method
Ask me later
EPUB format search results
Drill Down; look around;
click Add to Cart for EPUB
Now “push your cart” over to the
checkout desk
Adjust your loan period;
click Confirm Check Out
Now it gets complicated for “first
timers”
Here’s the bad news….
• First Timers need to:
– Install Adobe Digital Editions on their PC
– Download the OverDrive e-book
– Have or create an Email address
– Create an Adobe Identity based on that address
– Authorize their PC with their new Adobe Identity
– Connect their “Nook” to the PC
– “Sideload” the e-book from their PC to their Nook
After the first time, it’s easy
• Just
–Download the title
–Connect the “Nook”
–Sideload the title
But this time, it’s complicated;
so let’s run through it
• First Timers need to:
– Install Adobe Digital Editions
– Download the OverDrive e-book
– Have or create an Email address
– Create an Adobe Identity
– Authorize “your” PC
– Connect your Nook
– Sideload the e-book from their PC to their Nook
Adobe Digital Editions
• You have to install the Adobe Digital Editions
software to read and sideload the EPUB or
PDF book you have just checked out
– Just as you need MS Office (or a good clone) to
open and read an Excel spreadsheet
Click on “Click here to…title” link
Choose Download Adobe Digital
Editions
At Adobe’s site, click Install now
Choose version that works for your PC
Download and install using your
browser’s and PC’s normal procedures
Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari, Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, IOS…
ADE fresh from installation!
Well, almost…
ADE comes with a
built-in manual
Say ‘yes’ to the ACSM question
• If your browser or PC asks you whether you
would like ACSM files to open automatically in
Adobe Digital Editions, say ‘yes’
– ACSM is Adobe Content Server Manager
• When you download an OverDrive e-book,
you actually download an ACSM file first,
which then fetches the actual e-book from an
Adobe Content Server
Now back up to OverDrive
• Close the browser tab for the task you just
completed and use the tab that shows the
OverDrive Checkout area
Now you can click on Download
The e-book opens automatically in ADE
(You may need to tell your browser that)
Adobe ID: an inconvenient truth that enables
you to violate some of the laws of physics
This takes you back to the Adobe Web site
Fill in the required fields;
and if you don’t have an email address…
Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, etc.
Now fill those fields in
Click OK
Mother Adobe now associates the MAC address
of this PC with your Adobe ID
Apples, Androids, & Adobe
• Smart device owners
who load the OverDrive
Media Console App will
also be prompted to
authorize the device
with their Adobe ID
• The screens are a little
different, but the
process is the same
Quick Recap
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We found our OverDrive library and signed in
We found and checked out a book in EPUB format
We downloaded and installed Adobe Digital Editions
We downloaded our e-book
We created an Adobe identity
– And created an email account, if necessary
• We authorized our PC with that Adobe ID
• Whew!
• And now we can put that EPUB book onto our “Nook”
Sideloading
• “Sideloading” is
transferring an e-book
from a PC to an e-reader
• Adobe Digital Editions is
the slickest way for
OverDrive library EPUB ebooks
• Open ADE and connect
the Nook
– Pre-school jigsaw puzzle
skills are all you need
PC Detects Nook
ADE detects the Nook;
Note Nook on left under “Devices”
Drag and drop – Image One
Drag and Drop—Image Two
Dragged and Dropped;
a view of what is on the Nook
Safely Eject the Nook
(And always wear a seatbelt)
Mini-recap
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Found an EPUB e-book at his OverDrive site
Checked it out
Installed Adobe Digital Editions
Downloaded the e-book to his PC
Was prompted to authorize that PC
Got an Adobe ID (and maybe an email address)
Authorized his PC
Sideloaded the e-book to his Nook or Sony or…
One Two Three
• Lots of specific examples
• Only Three “types”
– E-Ink Kindles [Done]
– E-Ink everybody else [Done]
– Not E-Ink [Done]
Kindle e-Ink: Short Version
• Browse to OverDrive
site on PC
• Find and check out an
e-book
• “Slide” it over to
Amazon
• Assign it to a Kindle
• Sync and read
– (No Adobe)
E-Ink EPUB e-readers: Short Version
• Browse to OverDrive site
• Find and check out e-book
– Install Adobe Digital Editions
• Download e-book
– Get Adobe ID
• Email address
– Authorize PC
• Sideload to e-reader
Apple and Android Smart Devices:
Short Version
• Visit the appropriate “App
Store”
• Get OverDrive Media
Console
• Use it
– (one time authorization
with Adobe required)
Three “exceptions”
Chromebook
Kindle Fire
Three “exceptions”
Chrome Books
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Not a Microsoft PC
Not an Apple device
Not an Amazon device
Not even an Android device
OverDrive does not yet
specifically support it
• Install the Kindle Cloud
Reader App from the
Chrome Web Store and
treat is as a Kindle at
OverDrive
Kindle Fire
• Since it is a Kindle but
also has a browser, you
can
– Use its browser to visit
OverDrive and “Get for
Kindle”
– Use a PC to visit
OverDrive and “Get for
Kindle”
Windows 8
• A ‘big’ mobile device
• Native Windows 8 App can
not read WMA audiobooks
nor sideload
• Use OMC for Windows 8 in
Native mode and OMC
“classic” in “desktop” mode
– (i.e. Load two versions of
OMC)
Windows 8
• Run IE 10 as “Administrator”
for Windows Media Player
Security Upgrade
• Use the appropriate
OverDrive Help page for
details
• OverDrive is still fine tuning
its response to Windows 8
Questions and Resources
• http://sites.google.com/a/tblc.org/digital-delight
– Look for: OverDrive to eReader for beginners
• OverDrive Site “Help” resources!!
• alcarlson713@yahoo.com
OverDrive Bonus Section
• Rated Titles
– An opt in record of every OverDrive title you read
• Placing Holds
– Your email address is linked to your library card
number at OverDrive but not in the email universe
• Open ePub
– Behaves like regular EPUB but has no DRM and
can be copied and kept
– Not found with an Adobe EPUB eBook search
Enjoy your e-reading!