If you have an e-reader or a tablet, you may have downloaded
library books from Wisconsin’s Digital Library using Overdrive. The good news is that Barnes and Noble
recently began offering the Overdrive app for free to Nook Color, Nook Tablet
and Nook HD users. Amazon followed suit,
offering the app on Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD. This means that users can now download
library books directly onto their e-readers without first going to their
computers. Users simply go to the app
store on their device, “purchase” the Overdrive app for free, choose “Get
Books” from the menu, and follow the prompts.
For more detailed instructions for the Nook, click here. For Kindle, click here
(NOTE: when using the Overdrive app you
will want to choose EPUB books rather
than Kindle format books) .
Wisconsin’s Digital Library contains thousands of titles,
including fiction and nonfiction, old classics as well as new releases, in both
audio and print versions.
With the holidays coming up, you may want to check out a few
e-cookbooks, such as Baking
Artisan Bread: 10 expert formulas for
baking better bread at home by Ciril Hitz, Vegan
Holiday Kitchen: more than 200
delicious, festive recipes for special occasions by Nava Atlas, or the
classic Mastering
the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child.
Want to curl up with a fiction title from the NYT
Bestsellers list? Try The
Time Keeper by Mitch Albom, in which Father Time tries to teach earthlings
the true meaning of time, or Gone
Girl by Gillian Flynn, about a beautiful woman who disappears on the
morning of her fifth wedding anniversary, or the last in the Song of Ice and
Fire series by George R. R. Martin, A
Dance with Dragons.
Several non-fiction titles from the NYT Bestsellers list are
also available for e-readers including Unbroken,
the amazing story by Laura Hillenbrand of a WWII airman who survives a plane
crash, weeks adrift in a lifeboat, and capture by the Japanese. Another tale of endurance is Cheryl
Strayed’s Wild: from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail. On a lighter note, Gretchen Craft Rubin has
written a second book with practical suggestions about how to be happy called Happier
at Home: kiss more, jump more, abandon a
project, read Samuel Johnson and my other experiments in the practice of everyday life.
Are you finding that the titles you want are all checked out?
(even digital titles can only be checked out to one person at a time) Try browsing
through the section called “Currently Available ebooks”. Here are some I found at the time of this
writing: a wonderful book
by Condoleeza Rice called Extraordinary,
Ordinary People: a memoir of family, an adventure tale by Douglas Preston
and Lincoln Child called Thunderhead
and the creepily suspenseful Miss
Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs.
Happy e-reading!
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