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Instructions for downloading exterior the app:

Downloading sound books to your calculator (PDF 238 KB)
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OverDrive Help & Support links:

OverDrive Assist- Search for answers and/or watch how-to videos
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OverDrive condition - A site for determining if OverDrive is experiencing performance problems

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OVERDRIVE UPDATES

OverDrive has ended support for older operating systems. The post-obit is now in upshot:

  • Libby'due south minimum Apple tree iOS version is now iOS 10. To use Libby on an iOS device, users are required to update their device's operating system to iOS ten or newer. These are the steps to help iOS users update their operating arrangement version.
  • The legacy OverDrive for Mac desktop app is only supported on macOS versions 10.12.1 through 10.14.
  • Users on legacy web browsers may experience issues loading libbyapp.com or our OverDrive website and should upgrade to a newer browser version, if possible.

The expectation was that afflicted users would receive a security warning when support ended but nosotros've since learned that a alarm is not ever displayed. Users may feel issues with signing in, borrowing, loading the app's content, etc. For more data and troubleshooting tips, check out Libby Assistance  and OverDrive Help. If yous have any questions, please contact Lib-Back up.

OverDrive will exist sunsetting the legacy OverDrive app.This volition enable OverDrive and libraries to focus on Libby as the primary app for users to savour and engage with our digital library.

For the first step, OverDrive will remove the OverDrive app from the Apple App Shop, Google Play, and Microsoft Store in February 2022.

How this initial modify will impact users:

  • Current OverDrive app users can continue to use the app.
  • New users looking for the OverDrive app volition exist directed to Libby.
  • All users tin can proceed to use, infringe, and open titles from your library'south OverDrive website via a browser.

In future phases, OverDrive will be actively encouraging OverDrive app users to switch to Libby, with a goal of moving about over past the finish of 2022.

OverDrive Magazines

Unlimited access to over 3,000 titles, including meridian titles similar:

  • United states Weekly
  • National Geographic
  • Good Housekeeping
  • Vanity Fair
  • Rolling Stone
  • Cook's Illustrated

Magazines - OverDrive website https://nmls.overdrive.com/library/magazines
Magazines - Libby App in a browser: https://libbyapp.com/library/nmls

Magazines can be checked out for vii or 21 days and tin can be renewed.  Digital magazines accept no wait lists or holds and exercise non count towards your 10 checkout limit.

The magazines tin best be accessed through the Libby app or Libby app in a browser. Readers tin can browse lists of magazines inside the app and search to find available titles.

If you aren't able to use the Libby App on your device (such as a Kindle Fire), you tin can access the Libby app in whatsoever browser at https://libbyapp.com/library/nmls. This culling has the aforementioned titles as Libby, but offers slightly unlike features and device compatibility.  The article view characteristic is only available in Libby.

OverDrive Streaming Videos

Corking news! We have added hundreds of streaming videos to our OverDrive library.

Feature films

Kid'due south movies

OverDrive videos:

  • Part of your 10 detail checkout limit
  • They check out for seven days and tin can be enjoyed for 24 hours in one case you start viewing

Getting started with streaming video from your library

Garland Library cardholders tin borrow and lookout man free shows, movies, and more. Videos are streaming but and tin't be downloaded, and so yous'll need an internet connexion to scout them. Vdeos volition play right in your spider web browser.

Note: Streaming videos tin can swallow a lot of information, and then we recommend streaming over a Wi-Fi connexion.

How to sentinel streaming videos
To get started, borrow a streaming video from your library. And so:

  • Using your computer'southward web browser (like Chrome or Safari), select Scout at present in browser to first watching in a new tab.

What devices and browsers piece of work best
Streaming videos work on computers and Windows 8 and 10 devices as long as y'all have:

  • Adobe Flash Thespian
  • An up-to-appointment web browser, similar Chrome, Border, Firefox, Net Explorer 10 or newer, or Safari

How tin can I find the permissions for streaming videos and what do they mean?

Some videos have extra permissions (digital rights) that are ready past the publisher. These permissions determine how you can scout the video once you borrow information technology. You lot can view a video'southward permissions from its details page by opening the Details tab.

Permissions can include:

  • Expires: Once y'all start watching this video, information technology will elapse from your library business relationship after a set amount of fourth dimension (24 hours), even if in that location are extra days left in your lending period.
  • Public performance: The publisher does (or does non) allow this video to be played in a public setting (like a classroom or public library).
  • Playback express: You can but watch this video from certain geographic regions (like the United States or Canada), and/or you can only watch this video from a certain number of IP addresses.

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Source: https://www.garlandtx.gov/3541/OverDrive

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