We’re very happy to announce a new service from the Delaware Library Catalog and NetLibrary, our favorite E-Audiobooks and Ebook provider. While many patrons enjoy our downloadable digital audio books, we’ve carried a smaller line of ebooks for some time. Up until today, these titles have only been available for online viewing. In response to the changing technology scene, the increasing popularity of e-readers, and what are now almost daily requests from our library users, we now offer truly downloadable ebooks: copies can be virtually checked out, downloaded in their entirety to your PC for offline reading, and transferred to compatible ereaders.
When you find an ebook of interest in the online library catalog, click on the chain icon, enter your library card and PIN to connect to the NetLibrary site- you will now see the new option to “Check Out and Download This Ebook.” Previously, it was only possible to view titles online on your home computer, but with this new service users can download these titles for later viewing and for transfer to compatible ereader devices.
Before downloading your first Delaware Library Catalog ebook, you will need to add Adobe Digital Editions to your home computer. Netlibrary ebook titles are compatible with ereaders such as the Barnes & Noble nook, Sony’s Daily Edition and other devices including all four Sony Digital Readers (PRS-300, 505, 600 and 700BC), as well as the COOL-ER.
Currently, the collection is made up of general non-fiction, business, and reference titles, including:
- Pocket Essentials: Literary Theory
- Relationship Theory and Business Management
- Corporate Reputations, Branding, and People Management
- Shakespeare and the Classics
- Profiles From the Kitchen: What Great Cooks Have Taught Us About Ourselves and Our Food
And many more! We expect to start adding new ebook titles and collections regularly over the next few months, including vocational and business-oriented titles, popular biographies, and hopefully even more popular frontlist fiction titles as they become available.
This is good news! The Delaware libraries are making great strides in using available technology. I am curious are the ebooks in pdf format or something proprietary?
The download is in Adobe’s ACSM format- so the ebooks are probably are native pdfs or Epub-format files. ACSM adds the DRM to the files so they can be distributed and protected, which is why you will need the Adobe Digital Reader or a similiar sortware to read these titles once you download them.
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I am getting ready to purchase a Kindle ereader. Will ebook titles through the library be compatible with the Kindle. Hope I made the right choice. Thanks to DE libraries for moving in the right direction.
TY- sadly, there are not a lot of library-owned ebooks anywhere that work with the Kindle. I believe that it is still the case that Amazon uses a proprietary file format for its Kindle ebooks that is not available to libraries. Our ebooks do work with the Nook, Sony Ereader, iPad and a host of other devices, if you have not yet quite made up your mind.
With the launch of the latest Kindle, I am sure that there will be firmware upgrades to allow any format to be read on it. It is packed with so many new features, I am sure that there will be updates soon, if there is not already. And, with more and more ebooks being released every day there will come a time, soon, where you will be able to get any book you are looking for. It is a great device and it is truly far superior to all other ebook readers.