Downloading eBooks and Audiobooks to Your Nook Hard disk drive / Hd+ / Tablet / Colour

Follow these detailed instructions to enjoy eBooks on your Barnes and NobleNook . If you lot need instructions for another device, cheque our detailed instructions page. If you need instructions for another type of Nook, please visit this page.

Visit theOhio Digital Library to find items to borrow. If you have whatsoever questions, either call the library at (419) 826-2760 orcontact us.

Downloading Media to Nook HD / Hard disk drive+ / Tablet / Color

*Initial Setup
*Finding and Downloading eBooks
*Returning Items Early/Deleting

You tin also visit Overdrive's device assistance page for more information.

Initial Setup

  1. Showtime, you need to download the Overdrive Media Console app (OMC) to your Nook. NOTE: THIS Will ONLY WORK IF Y'all CAN Admission THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE. Nook Apps is no longer able to work. Try following the instructions for a regular Nook if yous cannot download the app.

  2. One time in the app store, tap on the box labeled 'Search Shop' at the bottom of the screen. Type in 'overdrive' and then tap the blue button marked 'Search' or 'Done' in the lower right corner.
    * Suggestions for what you might be searching for will pop up above the search box. If you see 'Overdrive Media Console' appear, you can too tap on that to complete the search.

  3. Tap on the green box marked 'Gratuitous' next to Overdrive Media Console. The box will change color and say 'Confirm'. Tap on it again.
    * If you don't accept a Barnes & Noble account registered with your Nook, a window will popular up saying that the activeness failed. Tap on 'add together credit carte'. This will open a window asking for a proper name and a credit card number and expiration date. Enter those and so tap 'Next'. On the next screen, enter your address and so tap 'Submit'. Once the credit card is added, tap on 'Free' and then 'Confirm' adjacent to OMC again.

  4. The app will and so install. One time the box says 'Purchased', you can become into the app either from the home screen or by borer on 'Apps' and then on OMC.
    * The first fourth dimension you open OMC, a screen might come up describing the virtually recent version. If you lot don't desire to come across this every fourth dimension, tap on the check marking next to 'Prove at start-up' to remove it and then tap on 'Close'.

  5. Next, tap on the navigation icon at the bottom of the screen. The icon is a series of three lines in a circle. Tap 'Go Books' and so 'Add a Library' at the bottom of the next screen. On the next screen, enter '43558'. The first result is Swanton LSD Public Library. Tap on that, so on the star adjacent to 'The Ohio Digital Library'. This volition set Swanton Library equally your default search library in OMC.

  6. If the app doesn't automatically open up, return home, go to apps, and open the Overdrive app. Overdrive should then prompt you to create an Overdrive business relationship. If you have one, sign in. If not, sign up with your email as the username, and create a password.
    * You should only have to do this once, but make sure you remember the password in case you demand to enter it again in the future.

  7. Last, sign into your account on the Ohio Digital Library site (this is unlike from your Overdrive business relationship). Click on 'sign in' and so select 'Swanton LSD Public Library' from the dropdown and enter your library card number. Click on 'Business relationship' and and so 'Settings' to ready your default lending periods. Yous can cull up to twenty-one days.

Finding and Downloading Titles

  1. To detect a title you wish to download, get to Apps and tap the Overdrive app, and and so tap the navigation icon (iii horizontal lines) at the bottom of the screen. Tap 'Go Books', so tap on 'The Ohio Digital Library.'

  2. There are two main ways to wait for titles. Either tap on the menu icon (three horizontal lines) at the top of the screen to pull up format genres to search in (eBook fiction and nonfiction, audiobook fiction or nonfiction, etc.), or tap on the magnifying glass icon to bring up a search box to wait for specific titles. You will demand your library card number to check out.
    * Search results show covers of volume titles. In the upper right corner of the comprehend, you'll see an icon. An open up book ways the championship is an eBook; a pair of headphones means information technology's an audiobook. If the icon is light gray, the championship is checked out. If it'due south black, so it's available.

  3. When you lot have institute a title, tap on the cover of the book. A blueish 'Borrow' push button will appear. Tap on that to check information technology out.
    * Do NOT check out anything with Kindle format for this app. Use merely for mp3 audiobooks or EPUB or PDF formats. To cheque formats for a certain title, click on 'more than' later on borer the cover and then roll down.

  4. Tap either 'Download' or, if information technology's an eBook, 'Read (in your browser)'.
    * While you tin read in the browser, it won't be downloaded to the bodily Nook, so you would accept to render to the Ohio Digital Library every fourth dimension y'all desire to read, and may lose your place. Downloading is fast and easier to access.

  5. If yous chose 'Download', you may demand to choose a format and click on 'Confirm & Download'. Recall to but choose mp3 audiobooks or EPUB or PDF formats. The title is now on your Overdrive Bookshelf. Tap on the navigation icon at the bottom then on Bookshelf. Tap the title to begin reading or listening.

  6. To access any of your titles in the browser, tap on the little person icon at the meridian of the screen on the Ohio Digital Library website to open your account.

Returning Items Early on/Deleting

  1. Books will automatically exist returned. However, there are two means to return the volume early on.

  2. First, go to the Overdrive app. If you don't see your title, tap on the navigation icon and so on 'Bookshelf'.

  3. Touch and agree the '+' in the circle to the right of the title you wish to return or delete.

  4. The option 'Return/delete' should pop upwards. Bear upon 'return/delete'. Another window volition open with the options 'Render then Delete' or 'Delete Only'. Impact 'Return so Delete'. This will both return your volume on Overdrive and delete information technology from your device.

  5. If you are only deleting an expired title, touch and hold the '+' in the circle to the right of the title, and so tap on 'Delete'.

  6. You can also tap on the navigation icon while reading the volume and select 'Return/Delete' from the menu that pops up at the lesser of the screen.

  7. If none of these options works, try touching and holding on the cover of the book until 'Return/Delete' appears.