I am greatly disappointed in how complicated this is.

This is great! Not complicated at all if you are familiar with using Overdrive from your library. I use it all the time for audio books and this is just as easy. Looking forward to using it!

I just watched the how-to video. It doesn’t look particularly complicated to me, just a few extra steps.

Really? First I have to go to my library, look up the book and log in, then I have to go to Overdrive to log in and place the order. Then I have to go to Amazon to log in AGAIN to actually get the book. Wow… great implementation… very user friendly.

Thank you for this very helpful video!

This is GREAT! ONce you do it the first time, your library card number and pwd is saved – you can do the same with your amazon acct info. Super easy and GREAT way to e-read! Thank you library!

If you follow the prompts it is not complicated. Just think, you can borrow and return books from your home.It doesn’t get any better than this!

Brianne, I noticed in the video “most books in the collection are compatible with Kindle.” Is there any explanation we can give patrons as far as which ones are not, and why?

Over on Amazon’s Kindle discussion area, someone has already found books that are available in Amazon’s Kindle store, and available through Overdrive, but in Overdrive they aren’t getting the option to choose the Kindle version. The example was Morgawr by Terry Brooks. Is there some incompatibility or licensing issue with that title, or it is perhaps that someone already has the Kindle version checked out so it isn’t currently available?

I find this very difficult…so disappointed!

Could you make closed captioning available on this video? I have a deaf patron who is excited to use ebooks with her Kindle and Kindle for iPhone app, and I’d like to be able to send a video demonstrating the steps. All the voice-over explanation in this video will not be accessible to her until captioning is added.

Carol,
Your half right. It’s a snap if you have wireless but a few extra steps if you have the original kindle which works on 3g. In that case when you get to the amazon page after you sign in read the clip on how to transfer files to the kindle.It’s three steps and 30 seconds.

It wasn’t too hard for me–and I’m famously bad with technology. The video helps!

How quickly unappreciative and ungrateful some people have become! They’re FREE!!! And the very first comment is a complaint!?? You just have to hate people sometimes! Goodness!! You too, #8! Can’t follow instructions? *facepalm*

This is so great!

Great video. Are there videos like this for downloading eBooks to Nooks, Android and Apple products? That would be really helpful.

Hi Brianne – I work for the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library and we offer our cardholders OverDrive downloads. Overall, I think that the video is very good, but we’ve identified an issue that has concerned our staff and users. Apparently, the Kindle device currently only allows a single open Internet browser. If you use the Kindle to search the Library’s OverDrive site, select and then go to checkout an e-Book, you are not able to access the amazon site because at this point a new browser window needs to open. Perhaps a disclaimer at the beginning of the video saying that you need to search the OverDrive site from a PC or laptop, excluding a Kindle search as an option, would provide greater clarification. Thanks for your consideration.

downloading is so easy! no need for tutorial. go the nassau.lib.overdrive.com find an available ebook, put it your cart and checkout with kindle! it took me 30 seconds to get an ebook! hooray to the public libraries & amazon. (nook has had it for a long time).

How do we “return” a kindle ebook if finished before the due date? When copies are limited I don’t want to keep it any longer than necessary.

I love it! And I like to see more ebooks in kindler version.

My Kindle is 3G and if it weren’t, it would be easier to download a library book. I think the whole thing is complicated and I don’t like putting in my library card number each time. I wish we could just set up an account with a password to make it easier. I know, I know. It’s library book and it’s FREE and I certainly appreciate that. But I have to attach my Kindle’s USB cord and go thru myriad steps to get the book actually onto my device. There should be something faster and easier.

This sounds so simple that i cannot believe some people actualyl complain it is too hard. I can’t imagine how those people actually manage to get themselves to the physical library.

On my 3G Kindle, I have to jump thru myriad hoops to get a library book downloaded. I have to attach my cable and copy and paste something and go through so many steps that I’m unwilling anymore to TRY to download anything from KHCPL on it. I’ve gone twice to the library to ask for help and those staffers also have to go through many steps to do it and when I get home, I forget how to do it. I’ve spent at least an hour this morning trying to get a library book. It’s extremely complicated and I really hate it. Anyone else having problems?
Kathy

If I do not have a computer, can I go to the Plainview OB Library and load a book onto my kindle

Brianne, as the primary Kindle user at our library, I’ve been assigned to put together a tutorial for the rest of the staff. I was going to use your video, but do you also have a handout put together I can give out to everybody as well? I’ll put one together if you don’t, but I figured there was no reason to if one already exists! Thanks!

Hi,

Is the handout you sent Tony (#28) posted on your site? And/Or can you link to it from here?

Thanks.

This is incredible and easy to manage. KUDOS for giving us the opportunity to download to our Kindles. Thank you

Where do I begin to get audio books from the Charlotte Mecklenburg library website with my kindle fire?

I use Overdrive for public library e books in Australia but they are DRM.It is great. BUT Is this process you have described for Kindle compatible with Australia.Otherwise my Kindle is so limited.

I could write a book by the time it takes to get a book from Overdrive for my Kindle.

Wow, 5 day checkout; that is one stingy library.

Our library does not connect with kindle….it is not a format choice.

Any time frame on when overdrive will be compatible with Australian libraries for kindle users???

I just bought a NOOKcolor at Barns and Noble. Can I use it there?

Hi.

I sometimes borrow Overdrive ePub and Adobe e-books from my local library for my iPhone. I now need to get a device with a bigger screen and want to get a Kindle, but it sure looks like the majority of e-books provided in Los Angeles are not in the Kindle format but in the Adobe formats, which my library website tells me are not compatible with the Kindle. (I am interested in getting the Fire.)

So, it seems I can read Adobe content on iPhone, Android, and Windows 7 phones and on iPads, but not on Kindles. Is this correct?

Please confirm as this will guide my purchase. Thank you.

Can you renew a book if you haven’t finished it in 5 days??

I followed the instructions but the library book did not appear in my Amazon account, yet the overdrive website states the book is checked out to me. What gives???