Overdrive and Apple iOS5

Important Notice for those using portable Apple devices. If you upgrade to iOS5, you will need to unistall, then reinstall, the Overdrive Media Console.

1. Press the home button.
2. Press and hold your finger over the OverDrive icon until it starts to shake.
3. Tap the 'X' in the upper-left hand corner of the icon to uninstall the app.
4. Open the app store and download/install OverDrive.


Once these steps have been performed, please navigate to your library and checkout/download a title. The library will automatically add itself to the list once the title has been downloaded.

New eBooks for July 2011

Here are the latest additions to our eBook collection:

NEW FICTION

Beach Lane - Sherryl Woods
Bel-Air Dead - Stuart Woods
The Book of Eleanor - Pamela Kaufman

Born To Die - Lisa Jackson
The Borrower - Rebecca Makkai
Buried Prey - John Sandford

Caleb's Crossing - Geraldine Brooks
Cold Wind - C. J. Box
Dick Francis's Gamble - Felix Francis
Dreams of Joy - Lisa See
Flirting with Disaster - Sherryl Woods
A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
Handwriting - Michael Ondaatje
Merciless - Diana Palmer
New Tales of the Vampires - Anne Rice
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing - Jasper Fforde
The Silver Boat - Luanne Rice
The Vampire Chronicles Collection - Anne Rice

NEW NONFICTION

The 4-Hour Body - Timothy Ferriss
Autobiographies of American Women: an Anthology - Jill Ker Conway
Fathers and Sons and Sports - Mike Lupica
The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson

Free eBooks

There are dozens of sites that offer free ebooks for download. Here are a few of our favorites:

Project Gutenberg
Over 33,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device. Choose between ePub, Mobipocket, HTML and simple text formats.

ManyBooks.net
More than 28,000 eBooks. Browse through the most popular titles, recommendations, or recent reviews from other visitors. Register on the site to create your own bookshelf to keep track of books you've read, and to share your list with others. The site's Help page offers instructions for downloading your ebook to a variety of mobile devices.

Commercial Sites

Barnes and Noble
The site offers numerous free titles for the Nook reader. If you don't own a Nook, you can download a free Nook app to your computer or mobile device.

Kobo
Free downloads for the Kobo reader. You can also downoad the Kobo app for your computer of mobile device.

Do you have a favorite site for downloading free eBooks? Please let us know!