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OverDrive Media Console App for iPad Review

I’ve been a fan of ebooks for many years, starting with Peanut Press books on my Handspring Visor Deluxe back around 1999.   After writing code for 9 hours/day for many years, you can imagine my wrists were shot, and I loved ebooks because they weren’t as heavy and hard to hold as a physical book.  Most public libraries didn’t lend ebooks back then, so I eventually resigned myself to purchasing everything I wanted to read.  When the Sony readers started supporting borrowing books from libraries, I checked to see what titles were available in the Greensboro library – basically none.  I had given up on borrowing library books until recently when I posted about the OverDrive Media Console universal app for iPhone/iPod touch/iPad .  The app was free, so I downloaded it and decided I’d give the local library another try.

As I mentioned, OverDrive is a universal app, but I decided I’d download it to my iPad 2.  (My aging eyes prefer to read on the bigger screen.)  All the images in this review are screen shots from my iPad 2.  When you start the app, you’re prompted to authorize your reader app with your Adobe ID.  This must be done if you want to read EPUB files that are protected by Adobe digital rights management, as all library books are.  If you don’t have an Adobe ID, you can create one.

Now you’re ready to find your local library; you need to know before you begin that a valid library card for your library is required.  You can enter address/zip code information for your library, or you can search by country/state/city to find your location.  Apparently many library systems in NC banded together to form the NC Digital Library so they could pool their resources.  I confirmed that Greensboro was in the list, and entered my library card number.  I could have the app remember my library card to make my subsequent “trips to the library” easier.

There was already a title in my bookshelf – an audiobook with a short introduction to using the OverDrive Media Console.  (Just a note:  the bookshelf isn’t a copy of the wooden bookshelf design used by iBooks.  It’s just a simple list.) I gave the audiobook a listen.  There are standard controls you’d expect: play/pause, reverse, fast-forward.  You can also jump back by 15 seconds if you missed something, and you can set a sleep timer to turn off the playback after 15/30/60/90 minutes.  You can multi-task while listening to audiobooks, just as you can when using iTunes to listen to music.  The app will automatically remember where you left off listening to the book, and it will start playback from that point when you return to the book.  You can also set bookmarks during playback.  You’ll be able to see a list of the bookmarks so you can quickly return to the area of interest.

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