Overdrive = Downloadable Stuff!

Brunswick Community Library, through our affiliation with the Upper Hudson Library System (UHLS), offers downloadable media.

What do we offer?

Digital Audio Books - Download to your PC, portable device, or burn the material to a CD and listen in your car
eBooks - Download to read on your computer, PDA or SmartPhone.

A computer
- The client is Windows only
- The computer is necessary to download material
- It can also be used to read or listen
An internet connection
- High speed is better, but you can use dialup
Software
- Overdrive Media Console, a download from Overdrive
  - More information
- Windows Media Player from Microsoft, at least Version 9 - for audio material
- Adobe Reader (formerly Acrobat Reader) from Adobe, at least version 6 - for eBooks
- Mobipocket Reader from Mobipocket for PalmOS, Windows Mobile (PocketPC, Smartphone), SymbianOs (Series60, UIQ, Series80, Series 90) - for eBooks
- All of the above software requires registration and/or activation to use with Overdrive
A card from any UHLS member library, including Brunswick

Read or listen on your computer, using the Console
Listen on most audio (MP3) players
- Check out the player you already have or are interested in getting at PlaysForSure to make sure it will work
- It's useful if the player has a 'Bookmark' or 'Resume' function. Otherwise, you'll restart from the beginning of whatever track you ended on. Because audio players are oriented to playing music, many don't have this feature.
- iPod is not directly supported by the Console. In order to use an iPod, you'll have to burn the material to CD, and rip the CD(s) to the iPod using iTunes
Read on your PDA
- Palm OS devices

Windows Mobile (formerly WinCE) devices
Phones or other devices using either of the above OSes (think Treo or Smartphone)

In the library catalog
- If a title you want is not presently available, you can be put on a waiting list; you will be emailed and have 3 days to check it out when it becomes available
- Checkout period is 21 days