Library Offers FREE Downloadable Books!

Galax-Carroll Regional Library
610 West Stuart Drive
Galax, VA 24333
276-236-2042 ex.204

For Immediate Release

Melanie Hemingway, Director                                                         June 20, 2011



Download Audiobooks and eBooks to your computer, cell phone, iPod, tablet, or eBook reader for free! All you need is an internet connection and a valid library card.

Your libraries and local governments in Carroll County and the City of Galax encourage your use of available, free technology. The Galax-Carroll Regional Library is part of a consortium of sixteen libraries which offers downloadable audiobooks and eBooks from Overdrive for free. The Southwestern Virginia Public Libraries Consortium went live in January 2009 with OverDrive downloadable Audiobooks. Recently added were downloadable eBooks. The Consortium is steadily growing its online collections. As of June 15, 2011, over 2000 Audiobooks and 1271 eBooks have been purchased.

OverDrive eBooks can be used on a Barnes and Noble Nook, a Sony Reader and a Borders Kobo but not yet on a Kindle. At this point, Kindles are still proprietary to Amazon; all eBook content for Kindles has to be purchased fromAmazon. However, at the end of last April, Amazon and OverDrive announced the forthcoming Kindle Library Lending program, which will enable Kindle customers to borrow eBooks from Overdrive libraries. The program is scheduled for launch later this year.

Visit http://galaxcarroll.lib.va.us/ and click on the tab for Audiobooks (Audio & eBooks).

Or

from http://carrollcountyva.org/, go to Government--Departments--Carroll County Public Library—click on Galax Carroll Regional Library.

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from http://galaxva.com/, click on the Department menu link to Library.

Or
go directly to http://swvapub.lib.overdrive.com/. Browse, check out, and download some great titles, all free for you.