Beginners - Step 4 - Downloadables

Have you ever downloaded a book, music, or a video? If you haven't, take a look at the Greater Phoenix Digital Library and you'll be wondering what took you so long to do so. You can get ebooks to read or music to listen to on your computer or MP3 player and videos to watch to boot. So open those floodgates and let the waves hit you. Music waves that is. By the way, most audiobooks can now be transferred to the iPhone™ and the iPod®! In just a few clicks, audiobooks can be sent to your Windows-formatted iPod using the built-in Transfer Wizard!

Discovery Resources:

For this discovery exercise, take a look at this video to familiarize yourself a bit with the structure of the Overdrive Media Console. This video is a bit jittery and out of focus but does provide very basic instructions..

See Part 2 for downloading to the Sony Reader-- Part 2.

(*NOTE: Please remember that Overdive cannot be downloaded or installed on a City PC.)

Go to the Greater Phoenix Digital Library and on the left side of the screen in the Browse area, place your cursor on Featured Titles--on the popup menu, click on Recently Returned and take some time to examine the Fiction and Non-fiction titles found here.

Go back to the Browse area and sit your cursor on Browse Music. You'll find something to your liking with categories spanning Ballet music to Instrumentals, to World Music. Grab your headphones, relax, and discover some new sounds!

And don't forget the Overdrive FAQ file located on Overdrive's website. This answers many questions that staff and customers may have.

Discovery Exercise:

Create a blog post about your findings. Did you locate a title that you might want to try out and download?

OPTIONAL: Try downloading a title from the Greater Phoenix Digital Library. You don’t have to have a portable player to listen to audiobooks or read the ebooks; you can also listen to/view them from your home computer.