Instructions for downloading eBooks and eAudiobooks directly to a mobile device for patrons of the Baldwin Public Library in Birmingham, MI

2. Search for Overdrive Media Console

4. Apple users, look in the upper right hand corner of your library

5. Android users, check your menu button

6. Tap: Add a Website

7. Search for Baldwin Public Library

8. Choose the one for Birmingham, MI

9. Tap on “MetroNet”

10. It will be permanently added to your list of sites

12. Click: Add to eCart

13. Click: Proceed to Checkout

14. Login with your library card

15. Click: Log In

16. (If applicable – agree to the Terms of Use)

17. Click: Confirm Check Out

18. Click: Download (under the picture of the book)

19. If you have not already registered an Adobe ID, you will be asked to do it here.

20. It is hard to do on a mobile device, and might be better done on a computer

21. It can be done on a mobile device, just fill out the questions and register your device with your email and a password.

22. If you have already registered your iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch/Android device, you can skip this step

23. After you have registered, close the app and open your web browser – it should bring you back to your cart

24. Click: Download (again)

25. It will automatically open in the app

27. If necessary: Click navigation

28. If necessary: Click on where you’d like to go in the book

29. Click on the right side of the page to page forward

30. Click on the left side of the page to page backwards

31. To get additional tools, tap or double tap on the center of the screen

32. Change the font size with the AA button at the top

33. Change the brightness with the sun icon

34. Go to the Table of Contents with the lined icon

35. Create bookmarks with the bookmark shaped icon

37. Sound should start immediately

39. Click “Edit” in the top left hand corner

40. Click on the red circle next to the book title to delete the book