The top 10 Libby and OverDrive questions answered
With all of the exciting updates to Libby and your OverDrive service as well as the constant stream of new books being added to your digital library, it’s understandable that your users may have some questions. Can I download the files? What about Kindle? Or…
How Children’s literature shaped my life
“Believing takes practice.” – A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle When I was a toddler I spent countless hours in the laps of my parents, flipping page after page of books about rabbits, both stuffed and otherwise, worlds of nonsense that could only be…
Libby gets an update and takes you on a tour
Anytime a new user or resident walks through the doors of a library it can turn into somewhat of an interview. The librarians at the information desk get to play 20 questions regarding how they can help this new reader get started. “Do you have…
Public libraries reach 225 million digital checkouts in record-breaking 2017
2017 was another landmark year in digital reading, as our 40,000 library and school partners circulated a quarter-of-a -billion eBooks and audiobooks through their OverDrive-powered collections. The more than 225 million borrowed titles represent a 14% growth in checkouts from 2016, which was also a…
5 Search Features in Libby That Every Bookworm Will Love
By: Rickie Mascia, OverDrive Social Media Specialist Throughout the year, libraries add thousands of eBooks and audiobooks to their digital collection, making it fairly easy to get lost in a sea of titles when searching for your next great read. Libby, our one-tap reading app, is…
Dyslexia Awareness Marketing kit, now at the Resource Center
By: Christina Samek, Marketing Specialist October is Dyslexia Awareness Month and OverDrive is proud to offer reading solutions for every kind of reader. OverDrive is the only US eBook provider to offer the dyslexic font option as a reading setting. OverDrive users can select this…
The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett is the next Big Library Read
On October 12, the Big Library Read will return to connect millions of library users around the globe as the world’s largest digital book club once again takes place. This time around, we’ll be reading The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti, a YA mystery…
OverDrive is now a B Corporation for Creating Positive Social and Environmental Impact.
Simply Taking Responsibility for Tomorrow and Empowering Communities with our Commitment to a “World Enlightened by Reading”. Today we’re incredibly proud to announce that OverDrive has become a Certified B Corporation™. So what exactly does that mean? B Corporations are a new kind of company…
9 of our favorite book scenes of all time
By: Adam Sockel, co-host of the Professional Book Nerds podcast and lover of nonsense. “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” My style of writing is often described around our office as whimsical. I have long been fond of sentences that paint a picture and…
Meet Libby: the fastest way to reading happiness
The United States currently has 160 million people who don’t yet know about all the goodness libraries have to offer. To enlighten these potential library users about the wonderment of reading, OverDrive has introduced a new way to find and engage with their local library….