Sora drives digital reading growth in South African schools
By: Thandeka Kaya, College Librarian & Kirston Hoets, Reseller with Meredith Wemhoff, Account Manager. St. John’s College – Houghton in South Africa saw a dramatic increase in both number of checkouts and unique users since the introduction of Sora. In September, St. John’s College’s average checkouts…
Top 5 questions from our Sora webcasts
By: Courtney Sveda, Training Specialist. Over the past two months, we’ve been sharing Sora, our new student reading app, with school partners through a series of live training webcasts. We’re happy so many of you joined us to learn more! During these sessions, we chatted…
Open a world of reading: meet Sora at ISTE!
Sora is the student reading app designed around the modern student reading experience. It empowers students to discover and enjoy eBooks and audiobooks from their school, for both leisure and class-assigned reading. Inspired by educator and student feedback, Sora was created to excite kids about reading…
Celebrate your love of reading with Libby and Sora apparel
We’re excited to announce the launch of The OverDrive Shop where you can purchase apparel to celebrate your love of digital reading. At the online store, you’ll find content featuring both our award-winning apps Libby and Sora. These shirts, hoodies, mugs, and more are perfect…
Students read more when libraries & schools partner
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist Growing up, this time of year was always one of my favorites because my school library allowed students to take home additional books over winter break, not just the standard two book checkout limit. I’d load up my…
Best Books of 2019 (so far)
By: Hannah Monson, Content Specialist Whoa! How is it already the end of September? I don’t feel like I’ve fully gotten used to 2019, and now it’s almost over. As we move into fall, it becomes prime book season (is there really a best and…