Downloading AudioBooks

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Electronic Resources Collection
Online copies of books, magazines, newspapers,
journals, and more.
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Go to our Electronic Library page andlog in with
your library card number toaccess these
resources for free.
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The five most popularelectronic resource
collections are
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1. Safari Tech E-Books
This collection includes over 1,000e-books about
computers and technology that you may read online.
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2. Dragonsource Qikan Chinese Online Magazines
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3. Ancestry Library
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4. Bookflix
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5. Biography Resource Center
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MasterFile Premier is another popular electronic
resource collection.

• It includes
• Nearly 1,750 periodicals
• Over 400,000 photos, maps and flags
• 86,000 biographies
• 106,000 primary source documents
• 500 reference books

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At its homepage, enter a topic and click Search.
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9,812 articles were retrieved and are displayed
at center.
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Narrow your results by source,publication,
author, subject, or date.
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Click on an article to view it as a PDF.
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A February 2009 article from Consumer Reports
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Articles are also available as HTML pages.
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A February 2009 article from Scientific American
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Articles can be translated.
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Articles may also be printed, emailed, and
saved.Source citations are provided.
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Use the Alert option to request to be notified
by email or through RSS when new articles
matching your search terms are added to the
collection.
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Download OverDrive Audio Booksonto Portable
Audio Players
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• OverDrive audio books can bedownloaded onto
  portable audio devices so that you may listen to
  them on the go.

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Start by connecting your device to your computer.
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OverDrive Audio Books are Easy to Find

• They are indexed in our library catalog, and
• OverDrive supplies a website patrons may useto
  access our collection. The Electronic
  Librarysection of our website provides a link to
  theOverDrive website. Take a look

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This is our OverDrive homepage.
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700 audio books are available for kids, teens,
and adults.
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• The first time patrons use OverDrive, they must
  download a program.
• Click on a link at the bottom of the OverDrive
  homepage to download it
• The program is called the OverDrive Media
  Console.

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Find a book. Browse using lists or do a keyword
search.
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Click on the Ramonas World link.
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On the Ramonas World page, click Add to eCart.
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Fill in your Card Number and PIN. Click Sign In.
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Click Download, which will open the Media
Console.
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Click OK.
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The Media Console lets one

• Transfer a book from a computer to a portable
  device.
• Listen to a book through a computers speakers.
• Burn copies of some books to CDs.

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To transfer an audio book to aportable device,
select the item by clicking on it once. Now,
click the Transfer button.
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This box will appear.Click Next.
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The book will be transferred to the device.
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Detach your portable device and press play.
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For additionalinformation, please contact
Allison ParhamElectronic Resources
Librarian(408) 293-2326 ext. 3012aparham_at_library
.sccgov.org
Thank you.