One of the options on the eBooks Advanced Search page allows you to limit your search to an award winning category. Choose an Audie award winning audiobook to listen to. Or browse the chilling titles that have won the Bram Stoker award.

OverDrive offers videos to help you get started using digital material, including mobile devices, ebooks, and audio material.

OverDrive offers multiple ways to search our digital collection. You can use Advanced Search to narrow your search topic, it's in the upper right corner of the OverDrive page. Or, if you start with a subject area to browse through you can then limit your results by the categories offered in the Filter Search By column.

Visit the OverDrive Help page for information on using eBooks. You'll find an introduction to the new OverDrive Read interface, as well as information for using your specific device, including downloading software to get you started.

Using the new OverDrive Next Generation website, you smashed a record on December 26, checking out 3,488 eBooks from HCL in 24 hours (previous record: 2867). Congratulations! Keep on reading!

Now that you've got a sparkly new tablet or eReader, you can borrow thousands of eBooks free from the library and use them on your device. Our eBooks page offers videos for getting started, links to useful help pages, and check for classes at our libraries for in person help with your device.

Ever wonder why tablets might be the more popular eReader of the holiday season? Articles about eReaders from our databases offer insight, including this one from Time magazine about publishers incorporating images, audio, and video content into electronic books, thanks to the availability of the tablet format.

This year offers new dedicated eReaders with built-in lighting for your reading. Take a look at some previews in these illuminating articles from OverDrive, Wired, and Engadget.com.

The OverDrive Holiday Gadget Guide has a section called Kid Friendly Tablets to help you choose a device for your child to use. You'll be all set to borrow our childrens eBooks, including Curious George Christmas Countdown.

Surface, Kindle Fire, Nook HD, or the iPad Mini...how to choose! OverDrive, our eBook provider, has a holiday gadget guide with descriptions of the popular devices on the market this holiday season.

Even though most devices will work with OverDrive Digital Media, check to make sure your gift will be perfect! Visit OverDrive Compatible Devices to find out which eReaders will work with OverDrive. Giving a compatible device opens up your loved one's world to over 30,000 eBooks and downloadable audiobooks.

Just in time for the holidays, the December, 2012 issue of Consumer Reports evaluates electronics, including eBook readers, as well as tablets for multipurpose use. The articles include trends, what to look for, and ratings.

Calvin Trillin is part of the Talk of the Stacks program on December 6. We've got his books in print and electronic.

Geoff Dyer is part of the Talk of the Stacks program on November 17. We've got his books in print and electronic.

Be sure to register for a class to learn the basics about eBooks and eReaders, and how to find, check out and download eBooks from the Library.

Take a Digital Books Tour to show you how to browse, checkout and download digital books from the library.

Use the search box in OverDrive Help to find articles specific to your need.

Naomi Wolf will be part of the Talk of the Stacks program on October 4. We've got her books in print and electronic.

Michael Chabon will be a part of the Talk of the Stacks program on September 15. We've got his books in print and electronic.

Tell us your email address and we'll send you a weekly email update listing new titles ordered for the library collection.

In addition to the library's eBook collection, you can find more free eBooks from Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg.

My Help from the OverDrive Digital Help page lets you customize info according to your device.

eBooks are available many foreign languages. Click on Advanced Search to limit your search by language.

EBooks are a great way to enjoy a book without everyone else knowing what you're reading. Maybe that's why romance is currently the most popular genre for eBooks. 

Help the Pew Research Center understand your use of digital technologies and how it affects libraries in the 21st century by taking this survey.

The Pew Internet and American Life Project's most recent publication indicates the average eBook reader is reading more books than non-eBook readers. Other interesting statistics are also mentioned in the article, The Rise of E-Reading.

The library has growing collections of titles available for kids & teens to enjoy on their reading devices.  For kids we are mainly purchasing fiction.  For some out of print titles we have found that we can sometimes get an eBook version even if the physical format is no longer available.  There is not as much available in non-fiction or picture books in an eBook format but we continue to look for topics and titles that are of interest to our patrons. We are purchasing teen titles when they are available in an eBook format.  Unlike many adult titles the eBook versions of many teen books are not available until the physical version is published.  This can cause a delay in availability for some titles. As with the adult eBooks there are several large publishers that do not currently have a lending model for libraries.  However, there are still many eBooks of interest that are available in our library collection!

Several major publishers do not currently support a public library lending model for eBooks, including Simon & Schuster, MacMillan and Scholastic. For example, we are able to purchase Twilight novels as eBooks since they are published by Random House but not the Hunger Games series which is published by Scholastic. At this time we are unable to purchase any Vince Flynn titles in eBook format. Why do we have some titles in a series available as an eBook or audiobook and not others? When possible, the complete series of an author’s backlist is purchased.  However, since not all publishers currently support a library lending model, it can cause some unfortunate gaps in our eBook and audiobook collections. Janet Evanovich’s titles are an example; her first 16 numbered titles were published by MacMillan so eBooks are not available for libraries to purchase. Smokin’ Seventeen and Explosive Eighteen are published by Bantam which are available for purchase and are in our eBook collection.