Our digital collection has grown by 250,000 titles with the addition of EBSCO eBooks. These titles span nearly 3 dozen subject areas and include categories like:

• Arts & Architecture
• Biographies & Memoirs
• Children's & Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction
• Computer Science
• Cooking
• Fiction
• Home & Garden
• Law
• Philosophy
• Reference
• Self-Help & Family
• True Crime

The addition of EBSCO eBooks complements the popular fiction and nonfiction that Overdrive primarily offers by allowing us to offer a deeper collection with thousands of fiction, nonfiction and reference eBooks to our members.

Highlights

• All titles are available all the time so there is no need to place a hold on a title
• Since all titles are available all the time, there are no checkout limits like the 10 title limit with OverDrive
• Read eBooks in your browser or download them to your mobile device using the EBSCO app or to your desktop/laptop using Adobe Digital Editions
• Add to a folder, save pages, email pages, cite, share, and more
• 14 day lending period for downloaded eBooks and an unlimited lending period for eBooks read in the browser 

Video Tutorials

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Step-by-Step Guides

• Searching EBSCO eBooks [4]
• Reading an eBook [5]
• Checking out and Downloading EBSCO eBooks [6]
• Transferring EBSCO eBooks to a Portable Device [7]
• Creating Notes on eBooks [8]
• Printing/Saving EBSCO eBook pages as a PDF [9]
• EBSCO eBooks Mobile App - Quick Start User Guide [10]

This collection goes live on Thursday, June 23rd and will be located on our Downloads page at metrolibrary.org/downloads [11] but until then, you can explore it here:

Start Downloading [12]