1. Getting Started with E-Books: Kobo

2.  Introductions  How do library e-books work?  Demo of process  How to get help  Questions?  Please fill out those evaluations Getting Started with E-Books: Kobo

3.  Browse, check out, and download with your library card … anytime, from anywhere!  Download to a Windows ® or Mac ® computer … and popular mobile devices including most e-book readers & smart phones. Getting Started with E-Books: Kobo

4. How does it work?  Choose from popular items including fiction and non-fiction, children’s and teen  Download e-books and e-audiobooks  Check out up to 5 items with your library card  If someone else has an item checked out – place it on hold, get an email when it is ready for you to check it out Getting Started with E-Books: Kobo

5. How does it work?  The library buys our e-books separately from our print books. Not all print books are available as e- books.  Publishers limit what libraries can buy. Just because something is available as an e-book on Amazon.ca or in the Kobo store, doesn’t mean we can buy it. Getting Started with E-Books: Kobo

6. What’s Required  A valid library card  A computer with Internet access  FOR EINK KOBOS: Software: Adobe Digital Editions for e-books, OverDrive Media Console for e-audiobooks  FOR KOBO VOX/KOBO ARC: OverDrive app Getting Started with E-Books: Kobo

7. More options  SCL subscribes to two other e-book providers: Freading and OpenLibrary  Both provide more variety of e-books than OverDrive (200,000+ titles) with NO HOLDS NECESSARY  But they contain less popular items (older, not mainstream publishers, some out of copyright)  They use the same general process as OverDrive. If you enjoy using library e-books you should check them out Getting Started with E-Books: Kobo

8. 1 copy = 1 borrower is reading This guy: While he has it out, no one else can borrow it. (But if you want it, you can put it on hold.)

9. Request vs Add To Cart

10. Get to Know OverDrive’s Formats Text formats:E-audio formats: Adobe PDF/OPDF – Portable Document Format. A format that is familiar to most of us, used for screen- readable, printable documents with limited re-formatting. OverDrive PDFs include DRM. EPUB/OEPUB – Electronic Publication. A free, open e-book standard developed by the International Digital Publishing Forum. EPUB books’ text can be resized and reformatted. OverDrive EPUBs are the Adobe version and include DRM. WMA – OverDrive’s version of the proprietary Windows Media Audio format. Only compatible with Windows devices, including Windows computers and the Microsoft Zune. Includes DRM. MP3 – One of the web’s most popular audio formats. Compatible with most portable devices. MP3s take up more space than WMAs, but have similar audio quality. They have no DRM, meaning that can also be burned to a CD.

11. Get to Know OverDrive’s Formats If you have a choice between formats: EPUB: Good formatting, can be returned early PDF: Less good formatting, can be returned early OEPUB: Good formatting, cannot be returned early OPDF: Less good formatting, cannot be returned early

12. Jocelyn Adobe ID: jbadley@sclibrary.ab.ca Tablet Home computer Work computer Phone I “authorize” all my devices with my email and password Now I can download and read the same library book on all my devices! How to… Authorize your device

13. Overview for Kobo Arc/Kobo Glo [with colour screens] Install OMC appAuthorize your app with an Adobe ID Browse, check out and download on your tablet

14. Overview for eInk devices [with black and white screens] Install + authorize Adobe Digital Editions Browse, Check Out & Download Open your ebook with Adobe Digital Editions Transfer items to your Kobo

15. Call us, email us or stop by our Information Desks if you run into problems. Getting Help Check the SCL website for handouts for many devices and systems. Sign up for a 1-on-1! If you have a laptop and Kobo, bring them to the library and we can help you set them up.

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17. Thank you for coming! CAN WE HELP? Email: info@sclibrary.ab.ca Phone: 780.410.8601 (Talk to a human being!) Or come by either of our Information Desks. Happy Downloading!