Please note: All branches of the Library will be closed on Friday, March 29, for Good Friday. The Library will be open during its regular hours on Saturday, March 30.

How to Access OverDrive on Your Devices

This is a step-by-step tutorial on how to set up an account for OverDrive. This will give you access to e-audio books and e-books from your phone or Kindle. Once you have your account set up we will also show you how to download and then locate your books or audio books!

The OverDrive Logo

The first step will be to click on your app store button on your device and search for the OverDrive App. Click on Install or Download to download the app to your phone.

Once you have the app downloaded you will see the following two screens. You will need to click on Sign Up in order to create your account if you do not have one yet.

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Creating a OverDrive Account

As you are creating your account you will be asked to enter your library’s information in order to proceed. You can look up the library by either name or location. You want to click on the Monroe County Public Library System (700 Fleming Street) .

Select Your Library

Once you have located your local library branch you will need to log into it using the bar code on the back of your library card and your PIN. Your PIN should be the last four digits of the phone number that you used to sign up for your library card.

Sign In

Once you have added your library you can now download a book to read! In order to do that you will need to click the Add Title button that you see on the screen. This will take you to all the books that the library has to offer.

Get a book!

The OverDrive app has both e-books and audio books that you can download to read. They will say underneath the book which one that they are. E-book will also have a little book icon and audio books will have a headphone icon. Please make sure you are looking at those and that you download the option that you need.

Examples of audio books and ebooks

To get the book you will need to find one that you would like and then click on the borrow button underneath the book. It will look like the picture on the below.

Borrow a book

You can borrow your books from OverDrive for either 7 days or 14 days. There will be a drop down arrow on the borrow screen where you can change the amount of time that you check out the book for from 7 days to 14 days.

Seven days or fourteen days

Once you have decided how long you would like the book you will hit the orange Borrow button. Then you can hit the green Download button on the screen to get your book! Or if you have a Kindle you can click on the Read now with Kindle option to download the book to your Kindle. This will add the book to your virtual library so that you can read it.

Download your book!

Once your book has downloaded it will appear on your Bookshelf. To get to your bookshelf, click the three lines in the top left hand corner of your screen to open the menu. Then click on Bookshelf to see your books.

Find your books

That is all! You now have a OverDrive account and are ready to download some books! We hope that this tutorial has been helpful. Happy reading!