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Get help with your Reading Devices: Nook, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPad, and many more
The Portage District Library offers you multiple ways to borrow free e-Books for your reading devices. We offer books through our collaboration with 24 other libraries at our MCLS database (Midwest Collaborative for Library Services http://ebooks.mlcnet.org/) powered by OverDrive. The primary Continue… -
“Hunger Games” leads the charts as the most downloaded book in February
Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games” trilogy occupied the top three spots in lists of Most Downloaded Juvenile Fiction Audiobooks for the United States, Canada and Australia. I’m going to do my best prognosticating in a moment, but first let me hit a few mainstays. Holding Continue… -
What does “Privilege Has Expired” mean?
Yes your library cards do expire and we had an enormous amount of cards expire on March 1, 2012. Our current catalog system is set up to renew cards each year. Often you are not even aware that your card has been renewed because at the checkout desk, the clerks seem to do it so easily without our Continue… -
PRICING CHANGE ON EBOOKS FROM RANDOM HOUSE WILL EFFECT HOW LIBRARIES PURCHASE BOOKS
As you may have heard in recent news, Random House, Inc. will be raising its eBook prices on March 1, 2012. OverDrive had several meetings with the Random House library team and they expressed their ongoing appreciation of the strong support libraries provide for their titles and authors. Random Continue… -
Enjoy OverDrive Media Console on BlackBerry PlayBook
With the launch of PlayBook OS 2.0, OverDrive Media Console now allows users to access digital titles on their BlackBerry tablets. The OMC app for PlayBook has the same great functionality seen on other platforms, allowing you to check out and download titles right from your device. All you have to Continue…
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