Staff Help Requested: Read an eBook Day
Submitted by sadie.bruce on Tue, 08/29/2017 - 13:11
What is Read an eBook Day? Read an eBook Day is a celebration of modern storytelling. We will be encouraging our members to be a part of the festivities by checking out an eBook.
What can you do to help?
- Using the comments below, share with Collection Anywhere and Marketing your favorite eBook with a quick blurb.
- Join the conversation by sharing and retweeting our social media posts on your personal account or using #eBookLove on social media.
- Send a picture to [email protected] of you, a coworker, family member reading an eBook.
- Print the attached full-sized poster and display at self-check area and at access and engagement desks.
- Print the attached half-sheet posters and display throughout the stacks to highlight the digital collection.
- Print copies of the How To Guides to keep and distribute at the circulation/reference desks and point customers to the location of the guides on the website at metrolibrary.org/downloads.
- Share with members the benefits of downloading eBooks using the following conversation starters:
- If a customer can’t find a physical copy of a title, check the OverDrive catalog to see if we own a digital copy, ask the customer if they’ve tried OverDrive, and encourage them to do so by showing them the How To guides.
- Inform a customer that, with OverDrive Read and OverDrive Listen, no software installation is required. They simply need an Internet connection in order to read or listen to their title in their browser (and they can even read OverDrive Read eBooks offline). OverDrive Read and OverDrive Listen are the easiest ways to enjoy our OverDrive collection.
- UNLIMITED RENEWALS! If there are no holds on an OverDrive title, it can be renewed an unlimited number of times or until a hold is placed on it.
- Mention our eReading rooms for Kids and Teens.
- Mention our narrated eBooks for Kids, which require no software installation to enjoy; they're an easy way for your little reader or pre-reader to follow along and it’s a way for the parent to not feel guilty about screen time.
- Mention other eBook platforms: Always Available eBooks through hoopla and EBSCO, indie and self-published eBooks through Indie Oklahoma and SELF-e, and Speakaboos.
Thanks for your help and we look forward to your picks for favorite eBooks and receiving your eBook pictures!
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Comments
I'll get us started! This isn't my favorite ebook but it's the last one I read.
The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen
It is a boiling hot Boston summer. Adding to the city's woes is a series of shocking crimes, in which wealthy men are made to watch while their wives are brutalized. A sadistic demand that ends in abduction and death. (from goodreads)
I became quickly obsessed with eBooks after I read You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott. Typically, I would not gravitate towards a book about elite teenage gymnasts...but this book was recommended to me by a friend when I explained how much I loved Girl on a Train. She suggested this because both books have an unreliable narrator. You never really know what is happening until the very end, typical for books written in the vein of Gone Girl. Since then, I've read everything by Megan Abbott and cannot wait to fangirl on her someday.
If you want a quick read with an unreliable narrator similar to Girl on a Train or Gone Girl, check out You Will Know Me. You will not regret it!
Have you read her yet? Her first book, In the Woods, has an unreliable narrator. Really good!
I could never pin down my favorite eBook (I've read too many of them!), but the one I'm reading currently--and really loving--is The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner.
When I checked this book out, I knew absolutely nothing about it other than it's on the Sequoyah High School Masterlist this year. I'm not sure what I thought the title meant, but I was NOT expecting it to refer to a snake-handling church! Dillard Early, Jr. is the son of a disgraced pastor who is now serving prison time for child pornography. Dill and his friends Lydia and Travis are outcasts in their small Tennessee town, and they each have their own struggles. The book is written with each chapter alternating perspectives between the three teens, and they each have their own unique voice. I'm not quite to the end of the book, but I've already cried A LOT. This is a great book for anyone who has struggled to fit in, or who has never wanted to fit in and proudly blazed their own trail.
Oh I love the setting!
I too was completely floored by this book. It was so good and had such an unusual story line.
OverDrive is really helpful for me, especially right now, because I am currently reading an epic novel, The Passage by Justin Cronin, and it is not always easy for me to lug around this ten pound monster. So when I feel like reading it wherever I am, I can just bring up Overdrive, and catch up to myself the next time I read the paper book at home.