Media Guide

Media Downloads Available Via  www.sachemlibrary.org

Suffolk Wave   (Now called Live-brary.com)   

FOR:

Audiobooks (wma, mp3 and wma for ipods)

Videos

Music

Ebooks (Epub & PDF ebooks work on  Sony Reader, Nook and KOBO)

                (Mobipocket ebooks work on Blackberry, Palm, Windows Mobile, etc)

 

Software REQUIREMETNS – Free download of “Overdrive Media Console” for audiobooks, video, music

Software REQUIREMETNS – Free download of Adobe Digital Editions for Adobe PDF or Adobe Epub ebooks

Software REQUIREMETNS – Free download of Mobipocket Reader for Mobipocket ebooks

 

Primary support is for PC compatible computer and WMA supported portable media players

*Macintosh supported with “Overdrive Media Console” for Mac

*IPOD supported via MP3 format audiobooks.  Also, most wma audiobooks can be transferred to Windows formatted ipod/iphone with built in transfer wizard in the “Overdrive Media Console 3.2” for Windows.

 

IMPORTANT NOTES:

1. Suffolk wave REQUIRES a software download to get anything (music, video, ebook, audiobook – see above).
2. Not everything is available at all times.  There are waiting lists for most titles, while some public domain titles are always available.
3. People will be contacted by email when their reserved item becomes available.
4. Patrons have the option to select different lending periods on a title by title basis of 7 or 14 days for audiobooks and ebooks.  Music and Videos have 3, 5 or 7 day options.
5. Limit of 5 items checked out at any one time.
6. You can now RETURN Epub and PDF ebook early – see Help for instructions.

NETLIBRARY

 FOR:

Audiobooks – wma, mp3 (for ipods)

 

Requires No free software download for web based access to audiobooks, but…

Requires Download of NETLIBRARY MEDIA CENTER for 1 click downloads, more streamlined viewing experience, automated ipod transfer of mp3s

 

Primary support is for PC and WMA supported portable media players

Ipod/Iphone are supported via MP3 downloads

 

IMPORTANT NOTES:

1. All items are either WMA or MP3 format.
2. All items are always available to all patrons.
3. Limit of 10 items checked out at any one time.
4. To limit to mp3 only, do Advance Search, select eaudiobooks and choose Mp3 for Format (762 mp3s currently from total of 2285 total audiobooks)

Glossary:

WMA – Windows Media Audio (A format for audio data, invented and supported by Windows, they are smaller than mp3s at the same level of quality)

MP3 – An audio file format that has no security or DRM (digital rights management), so it can be played on any device, pc, mac, ipod, zune, etc.

PDF – Portable Document Format.  Created by Adobe, to allow for the preservation of size, fonts, table and spacing for printing.