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?

1. Using the comments below, share with Collection Anywhere and Marketing your favorite eBook with a quick blurb.
2. Join the conversation by sharing and retweeting our social media posts on your personal account or using #eBookLove on social media.
3. Send a picture to [email protected] [1] of you, a coworker, family member reading an eBook.
4. Print the attached full-sized poster [2] and display at self-check area and at access and engagement desks.
5. Print the attached half-sheet posters [3] and display throughout the stacks to highlight the digital collection.
6. Print copies of the How To Guides [4] 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 [5].
7. Share with members the benefits of downloading eBooks using the following conversation starters:
   
   1. If a customer can’t find a physical copy of a title, check the OverDrive catalog [6] 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.
   2. 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 [7]). OverDrive Read and OverDrive Listen are the easiest ways to enjoy our OverDrive collection.
   3. 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.
   4. Mention our eReading rooms for Kids and Teens.
   5. Mention our narrated eBooks for Kids [8], 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.
   6. 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!