Library E-Books on the Nook = Easy Peasy!

One of the exciting features of the nook for me is that it would work with Overdrive, which is the company my local library uses for e-books and audio books. You can use Overdrive with the Kindle but apparently it involves a lot of steps, so many that one look at the “procedure” I found online and I ran away terrified! I found these excellent instructions online via http://laurenpressley.com/library/2010/01/my-nook-has-arrived/. (Underlined comments are mine).

Steps for setting up Adobe Digital Editions (for use with Overdrive and the Nook):
1.Download the Adobe Digital Editions software if you don’t already have it.
2.Drag it to your applications folder. (On my Imac, I didn’t have to do this part)
3.Open, register, and login. (I already had an Adobe ID, but if you don’t you will have to sign up for one)
4.Plug in your Nook and wait for Adobe Digital Editions to recognize the device. You might need to restart Adobe Digital Editions. You will have to authorize your Nook the first time. (A new window pops up asking you to authorize, select yes and you are done!)

Steps for getting ebooks from Overdrive:
1.Go to your Overdrive site. Some libraries have a digital library/resources section and it might be there.
2.Find books you’re interested in.
3.Determine if you can get a book you’re interested in now, or if you need to put a hold on it.
4.If it is available for check out, follow the steps for downloading it. (My library walked me through it step by step)
5.Mine automatically showed up in Adobe Digital Editions (which was open at the time). If this doesn’t happen to you, you might need to find the downloaded file (probably in the downloads folder) and double click it to get it to open Adobe Digital Editions.

Steps for getting the ebook onto your Nook:
1.With the ebook in ADE and the Nook plugged in, drag the book from the main screen to the picture of the nook on the left.
2.Eject your Nook.
3.The ebook will not be in the regular library. Instead of browsing B&N covers, use the library to navigate to your documents folder, and select the book from there.

Once everything is set up, it is a breeze to download library books! I am super excited, especially when I spent an hour or so searching through all the e-books my library offers to find 10 or so books that are on my to-be-read list already! Overdrive has a great feature of a wish list so you don’t have to search each time you want to find a library book, you can just add it to your wish list and then access that when you are ready to read each book!