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Throughout National Library Week, we’ve honored our beloved library workers, put a spotlight on the Digital Bookmobile…
April is National Poetry Month, sponsored annually by the Academy of American Poets. Here at OverDrive, we’re always game for celebrating the written word, and Content Reserve offers a number of classic and contemporary…
The National Book Foundation recently announced the finalists for the 2012 National Book Awards, and you’ll find many of these eBooks and audiobooks available in OverDrive’s catalog for libraries and schools. As anticipation builds for the National…
It’s “National Coming Out Day”, a day to celebrate homosexuality and the larger LGBT community and encourage openness and pride in sexuality and gender identity. This year’s theme, “Come Out. Vote.” ties in with the upcoming U.S. election in November and…
Ahoy mateys! We’ll start this one off with a joke: What’s a pirate’s favorite letter? (Find the punchline at the bottom of this post.)
September 19 marks the 10-year anniversary of International Talk like a Pirate Day.…
The first weekend in August marks the annual Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio. This unique celebration of multiples is the largest worldwide gathering of twins and has become an annual pilgrimage for…
If you’ve been following my Most Downloaded blogs in recent months, you’re probably tired of hearing about Harry Potter, Hunger Games, and Fifty Shades. So even though the beloved wizard continues to cast a…
For this month’s Retro Read, Jason Sockel pays poetic tribute to the Dr. Seuss collection “The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories.” -Ed.
What a stroke of good luck!
Like the rare finding by a duck named McCluck,
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Mother’s Day is May 13, and this year, we Sockel brothers want to salute our mother as best we know how—by writing a blog in her honor! This is also a very exciting time for Team OverDrive, as many a…
As predicted by this guy last month, PotterMORE is right! Harry Potter titles accounted for a startling 64 percent of the top Juvenile Fiction eBook and Audiobook titles downloaded in April, occupying 51 of 80 possible…











