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Originally Posted by WilburMcG
As a new ebook reader I have enjoyed free ebooks from my local library via Overdrive. I have the Overdrive app on my iPad where I read the most, but occasionally open the book on a Windows PC at work and read on my breaks. Supposedly Overdrive syncs to keep your place but I can't ever get the Windows browser view to work. I have to go hunt down where I left off.
Am I using it wrong? Is there a better way to read these on my Windows PC that will keep it sync'd witth my Overdrive app?
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I. YOU HAVE TWO DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS: one with OverDrive, and one with your library. These are separate and distinct from each other, although you will use both when borrowing content from your library's OverDrive lending catalog, as described below, in II. (The same process applies when borrowing content via 3M Cloud Library or Axis360, and for simplicity's sake, I recommend using the same login credentials for OverDrive, 3M Cloud Library, Axis360, and Adobe Digital Editions.)
II. To borrow OverDrive media from your library:
A- Visit your library's OverDrive catalog, either from your library's website or from within your OverDrive Media Console app
B- Perform the next two steps in either order:
1. Select the content you want to borrow
2. Enter your LIBRARY's login credentials to borrow the content you selected
C- Check out the title - which process will require you to choose the:
1. Format you wish to borrow (e.g., epub v. Kindle), and
2. Platform on which you want to consume the content:
(a) by downloading to your device and consuming the content via the
OverDrive app (formerly known as the OverDrive Media Console), or
(b) by downloading to your browser and consuming the content via
OverDrive Read.
NOTE: You can actually choose both platforms, by repeating the above steps, but content downloaded to OVERDRIVE READ and those downloaded to OVERDRIVE MEDIA CONSOLE don't sync with each other. Not even on the same device. However, content downloaded to OverDrive Read content does sync across devices (see *,**), and content downloaded to OverDrive Media Console does sync across devices (*,**).
(*) Provided you are logged into your OverDrive account, your device is connected to the Internet, and you set up your account to sync.
(**) For each device on which you wish to consume/sync borrowed content, you have to perform all of the steps described in II.
III. You can log into your OverDrive account in either of these two ways:
A- From within the OverDrive Media Console app on any device
B-from the
OverDrive website, where you'll see the following links in the upper right hand corner of the website: "Sign In | Sign Up | Search".