In order to test the download function of its website, I choose a title named "The show must go on" by Jane O'Connor. Since I have the title information, I used advanced title field search and get 3 results immediately which includes 2 audiobooks in MP3 and WMA format, and 1 ebook. At this stage, you can listen to the sample to see if you really like it. If you do, you may decide if you want to buy from a bookstore or borrow from a library. If you want to borrow from your local library, you first need to do a search to see if your local library is on the owner list. If it does, then you can select your library on the list. The zip code search is really helpful and effient way for the customers. Once you find your local library, in this case, it is Montgomery County Public Library and its branches. When you click on the library on the list, it will take you to the Maryland' Digital eLibrary Consortium website. You then can check out the e-audio or place a hold by using your library card.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Week 7, thing#22: Downloadable materials
OverDrive site is pretty good in design. You can search any material by keyword, title, author and ISBN. You can also perform advance search by combining different search categories. I first search the title "That Used To Be Us" by Thomas L Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, but the title is only available in Adobe EPUB format and only available to some 9 countries other than US. The site provides bookstore search so you can buy the reading right there. In this case through search, I found an Australia store called "Read without Paper" (http://www.readwithoutpaper.com/29E80417-A4BF-494D-9DB5-8863D1081C2C/10/130/en/ContentDetails.htm?ID=0cb6dc3a-0b81-4361-ae6b-7a2d13cba53c) that has the e-book so you can purchase the read right for AUD32.03.
In order to test the download function of its website, I choose a title named "The show must go on" by Jane O'Connor. Since I have the title information, I used advanced title field search and get 3 results immediately which includes 2 audiobooks in MP3 and WMA format, and 1 ebook. At this stage, you can listen to the sample to see if you really like it. If you do, you may decide if you want to buy from a bookstore or borrow from a library. If you want to borrow from your local library, you first need to do a search to see if your local library is on the owner list. If it does, then you can select your library on the list. The zip code search is really helpful and effient way for the customers. Once you find your local library, in this case, it is Montgomery County Public Library and its branches. When you click on the library on the list, it will take you to the Maryland' Digital eLibrary Consortium website. You then can check out the e-audio or place a hold by using your library card.
In order to test the download function of its website, I choose a title named "The show must go on" by Jane O'Connor. Since I have the title information, I used advanced title field search and get 3 results immediately which includes 2 audiobooks in MP3 and WMA format, and 1 ebook. At this stage, you can listen to the sample to see if you really like it. If you do, you may decide if you want to buy from a bookstore or borrow from a library. If you want to borrow from your local library, you first need to do a search to see if your local library is on the owner list. If it does, then you can select your library on the list. The zip code search is really helpful and effient way for the customers. Once you find your local library, in this case, it is Montgomery County Public Library and its branches. When you click on the library on the list, it will take you to the Maryland' Digital eLibrary Consortium website. You then can check out the e-audio or place a hold by using your library card.
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