With a free library card and the right app, you can check out e-books, audiobooks and more from your local branch. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer is the author or co-author of eight books on ...

I love books. If I go to a library or bookstore searching for a particular title, I invariably leave with three or four tucked under my arm. But I keep busy and am perennially overscheduled, so I ...

For over a decade, the OverDrive app has offered a service that allows institutions, including public libraries and schools, to lend their digital catalogs of e-books, audiobooks and other digital ...

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Here's how to use Libby to connect your devices to your local library and borrow all the ebooks and audiobooks you want. Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast ...

Steve Potash, the bearded and bespectacled president and C.E.O. of OverDrive, spent the second week of March, 2020, on a business trip to New York City. OverDrive distributes e-books and ...

OverDrive, the service you can use to borrow ebooks, audiobooks and other digital media from your local library, school or university, is shutting down. In a blog post spotted by TechCrunch, OverDrive ...

The Waco-McLennan Library app aims to meet growing demand for digital services by providing what Assistant Director, Sarah Freeland, calls a "seamless one-stop portal" for library users. The platform ...

An inflection point came in 2002, when Potash said OverDrive was not in its strongest position as a business. This was after dot com crash, and e-book was almost a dirty word, Potash said. But ...

As book bans spike nationwide, access to particular texts varies tremendously depending on where readers are located. “If you’re after a particular title by Toni Morrison or Margaret Atwood,” writes ...

The Kindle app is the perfect platform for reading e-books on iPad or iPhone. Photo: Ian Fuchs/Cult of Mac Reading books. It’s something we’ve all done at some point in our lives. People read for fun, ...

Having problems finding books in Florida that have been banned in the local library? It just got a little easier. This program makes ebook and audiobook versions of books that have been banned in your ...