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Overdrive
Overdrive Audio Books to Download
Overdrive provides downloadable audio books from many publishers. Titles include current bestsellers, classics, nonfiction and fiction titles for all ages. You can reserve and download titles 24/7 on your PC or compatible PDA. In many cases, you can burn the title to CDs.
From your home or office, reserve and download via your PC computer 24/7.
Download Overdrive titles from your home or office, using your Pierce County Library card barcode and PIN to gain access to titles.
Helpful Information
- Publishers available through Overdrive include BBC Audiobooks, Books on Tape, Brilliance, Listening Library, Harper Collins, Random House, and others.
- You can listen from a PC, on WMA-compatible devices or burn many titles to CDs.
- Most titles are downloaded in multiple sub-parts, as an aid to faster downloading and ability to split onto several CDs.
- Publishers decide whether a specific title of theirs may be burned to CD, and this information is available to you before you download the title.
- Compatible devices are made by Creative, Dell, HP, Cellular, T-Mobile, Motorola, Rave, and others.
- A one-time download of Overdrive Media Console software works with Windows Media Player software to download and play audio files.
- The audio books you can download will appear in our library catalog and on the OverDrive web pages. Check out period is 21 days and can be renewed via the OverDrive web pages. You may have up to 10 Overdrive titles checked out to you at one time.
- There is no return or check in required. If you do not renew the titles, they simply expire (will not be playable), and become available to others to download, after 21 days.
- Like regular books, each copy of a OverDrive audio book is available for one person to check out for 21 days. (Others can not download that copy while it is checked out to you.)
- You may place a reserve (wait list) on the OverDrive web site for currently unavailable title copies and receive an email notification when the title is ready for you to download. You may have up to 10 titles on a wait list with OverDrive at a time.
- Overdrive titles are not compatible with iPods or Macs.
- More help, information and a Quick Start guide are available on the OverDrive web pages.
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