Exciting news for the Englewood Library!
(Autumn Murray, left, listens as Englewood Public Library director Dorothy Hargrove explains how to use the NOOK eBook reader. The library added 10 of the electronic readers, each loaded with 20 to 25 books. The devices can be checked out for up to three weeks at a time. Photo by Tom Munds)
While thousands of paper and ink books are still available, the Englewood Public Library also has technology available to electronically download books and other items to computers or other devices plus customers can check out a small, pad-sized reader called a NOOK eBook reader that contains 20 or more novels.
“The NOOK eBook reader is a new addition to our library,” library director Dorothy Hargrove told the city council at the Nov. 14 study session. “We worked with Barnes and Noble to purchase 10 of the NOOK eBooks and had each of them preloaded with 20 to 25 books.”
She said adding the ebook readers to the library was economical because it cost $2 per book to load it on the device while the average price of a hard cover book is about $15.
Five of the readers have 20 to 25 books high on the best-seller list, three are popular specific-theme books such as romance or mystery novels, and three are loaded with book club favorites.
The new service was demonstrated to members of the Englewood Library Board. Board members then voted to provide money to buy an additional five Nook Books.
The NOOK eBook readers were put into service Nov. 15 and can be checked out at the circulation desk for up to three weeks.
On Nov. 16, Hargrove said the new devices already are popular, as all 10 either are already checked out or being held for customers who reserved them.
Hargrove took time to demonstrate the NOOK eBook reader to library patron Autumn Murray.
Murray, a Littleton High School student, said she had never seen or used a device like the NOOK.
“This is pretty cool and even kinda crazy,” Murray said about the device. “It contains all those books yet it is so tiny you can put it in your purse.”
The library also added another service for readers by providing a system through a partnership with Across Colorado Digital Consortium that allows customers with valid library cards to “check out” items by downloading materials like audio books and ebooks to personal devices such as computers or iPods.
The system is simple but does require the software OverDrive Media Console for audio books and the Adobe Digital Editions software for ebooks. The two software programs are available and can be downloaded free of charge from the library website at www.englewoodpubliclibrary.org.
When the software is installed on the individual’s electronic device, the next step is to go to the library website and search for the item by subject, title, author or format.
When the desired items are located, add them to the “cart” and click on the “proceed to checkout” icon to continue.
Then, click the download button under each title to launch the software so the item is loaded onto the individual’s personal electronic device.
The downloads are for a specific lending period and disappear when the check-out period expires. However, some audio books and ebooks can be retained by copying them to a CD.
There are no late fees for downloading the items and no charge for using the service.
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