eAudio Help

Additional eAudio Help

Using Your Kindle, Nook, I-pad and other e-devices . . . this Friday @ your Library

Submitted by Jorie Nissen on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 12:31pm

The under50over Program at Clear Lake City-County Freeman welcomes you Friday, March 9th at 10:30 am in the Marge Jacobson Community Room. Learn how to download e-materials from our ‘Overdrive Catalog’ to your e-readers, smart phones, or other wireless devices. We will start out in the Community Room and break into groups according to which device you own. Moises Villasenior, Technology Training Assistant, Laura Smith and Jorie Nissen, Reference Librarians, will be helping you with the downloads.

March Adult Programs @ Your Library

Submitted by Jorie Nissen on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 10:01am

The Clear Lake City - County Freeman Branch Library looks forward to its March Programs*.  This includes under50over,  book clubs (mystery, great books, and two different science fiction/fantasy), Adult Crafts-to-Go, Freeman Needlecrafters, and the Daughters of the Republic of Texas Lineage & Genealogy Day. All programming is supported by the Friends of Freeman Library. 

For more information on any of our programs in March, please contact the library at (281) 488-1906 or visit us at the upstairs Information Desk. The Clear Lake City - County Freeman Branch Library is located on 16616 Diana Lane, just off of Bay Area Boulevard.

*To print the calendar for March, click on the attachment below.

We'll help you with your DIGITALNESS!

Submitted by Alma C on Tue, 11/08/2011 - 12:39pm

Do you have a E-booksnew reader? Don't know how to use it? Come on in or give us a call! We'll be more than happy to assist you.  We know it all: IPads, Kindles, Nooks, Sony Readers, Androids and the list goes on and on. Look to the near future and we be having Digitalness Learning Sessions for everyone.

Kindle January 7, 2012 @ 3:00 pm

Nook January 14, 2012 @ 3:00 pm

IPad January 28, 2012 @ 3:00 pm

 

UPDATE: Apple iOS5 update

Submitted by Michael Saperstein on Thu, 11/03/2011 - 2:43pm

To those who updated their Apple products to iOS 5, on 11-3-2011, Overdrive released an update to the Overdrive Media Console that fixes the issue.  Please download and install the new version of the Overdrive Media Catalog, and check for updates for iTunes.

I have tested it and the eAudio title I transferred did not go into the audiobook section like it used to.  A playlist is created for the audiobook.  In the update that released today, the name of the eAudio is now included in the transfer instead of random numbers.  The newest version is 3.2.0.7.

If you are suffering any issues after updating to iOS 5, make sure to update iTunes and Overdrive and hopefully the issue will be solved.  And no more random numbers instead of chapter titles!

 

Coming this Friday!

Submitted by Jorie Nissen on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 11:47am

The Clear Lake City - County Freeman Branch Library can't wait until this Friday when the Digital Bookmobile visits. This is a hands-on approach which helps library members with eBooks, eAudio, and portable reading devices. The Digital Bookmobile will be parked on the Diana Lane side of Freeman Branch Library from 10 AM to 2 PM. Snacks are made possible by the Friends of Freeman Library and the JSC Federal Credit Union.

Apple iOS 5 will not transfer WMA eAudio to the Apple devices.

Submitted by Michael Saperstein on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 12:46pm

To all Apple users.  Please be advised that something must have changed in the way iTunes works with  iOS 5.  After updating to the iOS 5 for Apple products, you will no longer be able to transfer WMA formatted titles to your device from the Overdrive Media Console.

Normally the Overdrive Media Console uses iTunes to convert the file into something it can use.  Something more than likely changed in the iOS 5 update and now the Overdrive Media Console can no longer use iTunes to convert the files.  Our developers are working on the issue and their response about the issue is below.

MP3 formatted titles should still work as normal.  We will update you here as soon as we know this is fixed.

 

Don't Miss the Digital Bookmobile!

Submitted by Jorie Nissen on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 5:49pm

The Clear Lake City - County Freeman Branch Library looks forward to the Friday, October 28th visit of the Digital Bookmobile. This is a hands-on approach which helps library members with eBooks, eAudio, and portable reading devices. The Digital Bookmobile will be parked on the Diana Lane side of the library from 10 AM to 2 PM. Snacks are made pos`sible by the Friends of Freeman Library and the JSC Federal Credit Union.

Selecting titles for the Digital Media Catalog.

Submitted by Michael Saperstein on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 7:46am

Since title selection is such an important factor in the success of the HCPL Digital Media Catalog, I thought it would be good to talk about the factors I use in determining whether or not to purchase a title.

Ponderign the titles.

Each Monday I look at every title that was added to our vendor for digital titles catalog within the previous 7 days.  Most of the time there are thousands of new titles to look through.  I then pick out the ones I am interested in and add them to my monthly orders. 

 

If there are any title suggestions I have not looked at, I look through them as well.  When it is time to place the order, I go through my cart and start taking out titles in order to get the final cart to within the budgeted amount I can spend that month.

Coming Soon Features For Our Mobile App Users

Submitted by Michael Saperstein on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 8:09am

First let me apologize for the delay in getting the previously mentioned eBooks into the system.   There was an unforeseen delay that was out of our control.  It should be completed soon.  The new August titles may meet the same unforeseen delay.

I was recently at our vendor's convention for eBooks and they mentioned a few features they are working on.  They may be up by the end of the year, but their main focus is in getting the Kindle up and running.  They would not state the date that the Kindle will be able to use our service, but they did stress that it will be VERY SOON.

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