OverDrive Audio Books/OverDrive Audio Music

What are these digital services?

OverDrive is an online service allowing you to download audio book titles or music to your personal computer. These files are encoded with Digital Rights Management (DRM) software, so checkouts & recording options are controlled by the OverDrive Media Console software.

What are the Rules?

• If you are blocked from checking out items from a SAILS library, you will be blocked from checking out digital titles.
• You can check out 6 titles at a time and have 1 title on hold.
• The loan period is 14 days. All titles check in automatically
  Titles will stay on hold for a you for 72 hours.
• You can have up to 2 items in your shopping cart at a time
• Titles will remain in a cart for 30 minutes
• Titles may not be renewed
• OverDrive audio books need to be returned by OverDrive and requested via a form on the SAILS site at:
  http://sailsinc.org/dlrreturn.asp
  

Who is the Service for?

The OverDrive service is for you if you may do one or more of the following:

• listen to audio books
• have an MP3 player
• have an Internet connection
• read books on a pc or handheld
• listen to books on a pc

How is it Used?

• Download & Install the OverDrive Media Console software & make sure you have the newest version of Windows Media Player installed.
• Find the eAudio title you want to download.
• Put the title in your cart.
• Log in with your SAILS library card number & PIN.
• Check out the title.
• Download the title.
• Download the parts to your PC.
  *Note: eAudio titles only work with Microsoft Windows.

Complete details are available at the QuickStart Guide

This service does not work with iPods. The Digital Rights Management software Apple uses is not compatible with WMA, which is what the publishers are using for file protection for the OverDrive titles.