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FREE AUDIO BOOK DOWNLOADS!
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New at the Red Bank Public
Library
Check Out and Download Digital Audio Books
for free, 24/7!
Red Bank Public Library cardholders now
have immediate access to hundreds of digital audio books from Listen
NJ, a pilot project for 17 participating libraries in New Jersey! |
Topic Guide:
About ListenNJ
Getting Started
Search for a Good Book
How to Download a Book
Security
Upgrade - FirstTime Users
How to Play and Navigate a
Book
How to Burn a Book to a CD
How to Transfer a
Book to a portable device
Troubleshooting
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Access couldn’t be easier! Use your
personal computer and library card to check-out and download:
- popular fiction,
- biography,
- business and career,
- children’s literature and learning
aids,
- current events and history,
- mystery, suspense and thrillers,
- religion and spirituality,
- romance, and
- self improvement.
You may download to your personal computer
and transfer the data to a windows based MP3 player. (Sorry this does not
work with IPODs! - Check here for a list of compatible
devices.)
Digital audio books can also be burned to a
CD-ROM disc to be played on a CD/MP3 player.
Check Out Details for your Audio
Book:
- You do not need to come to The Library
to either select or return a digital audio book. Everything is done
from a remote computer.
- The loan period is 2 weeks. When the
loan period is over the file expires and the material is automatically
checked back in.
- You may put Items on reserve. When the
requested title is available you will be sent an e-mail . You will
have three days to download your reserved audio book, otherwise it
will go to the next customer waiting for it.
- You can check-out up to three digital
audio books at one time.
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To access digital books at ListenNJ
you will need:
- A valid Red Bank Public library card.
- Access to the Internet.
- Free software
for the device or computer on which you wish to use the materials you
download from ListenNJ.
Please note that you can download and enjoy
digital books at home, at work, or when you travel, but you cannot
download them to The Library's public computers.
Go to
: ListenNJ
- Make sure that your computer has Windows
Media Player 9 or newer (download).
- Note* - The first
time the Windows Media Player attempts to play a copyrighted file, it
will alert you that Security Upgrade (instructions)
must be performed. This is a one time process that identifies the copy
of Windows Media Player with the computer on which the Player is being
used.
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Go back to the Listen
NJ homepage:
- Search for a book under the Digital Book
Search column:
- by author, title, or all.
- Browse the collection by
availability in Always Available, Recently Added, Try These, and
Classics.
- Browse the collection by genre in
Fiction: All Fictions, Mystery and Thrillers, Romance, Science
Fiction and Fantasy, and Children's Fiction.
- Browse the Non-Fiction collection by
subject: All Nonfiction, Biography and Autobiography, Business,
Self-Help, Learn a Language.
- If you decide to Browse
a category, you may sort all of the results by clicking on title,
author, published date, most popular, or date added to the site at the
top of the column as shown below:
- Select your book by clicking on the
add to cart for the title you want on the right side of the
screen.
- Your cart will then be displayed.
- To select another book click on Continue
Browsing, or
- If you are finished, click on Proceed
to Checkout.
- Click OK on the
Security Alert dialog box.
- Select Libraries of Middlesex Automation
Consortium in the first drop down box.
- Type in your complete library
card number beginning with 27826...
- Hit <Enter> or
click on Login.
- The check Out screen asks you to Confirm
Checkout and tells you how many other books you currently
have checked out.
- The book is now checked out to you and
you may now download your selection.
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- Click on the 'Download'
link for your audio book after checking the title out.
- The OverDrive Media Console will open
and prompt you for a download location for your audio files. Click ‘OK’
to save the files to the default location.
- First time OverDrive users will then by
prompted for the security upgrade mentioned in theNote in Getting
Started above. Click OK.
- Cancel the download.
- Click on Tools on the
titlebar of the OverDrive Media Console.
- Click OK.
- Answer Yes to Allow
Windows Media Player to download the security upgrade.
- Then click Play to
learn whether the download was successful.
- Once you have backed up your license you
are ready to download your audio book.
- Go back to the ListenNJ
screen with your selected title(s) and click on the Download
button again.
- Select the parts you want to download
and click ‘OK’. Depending on the file size and
the number of parts to be downloaded, you may have to wait several
minutes.
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- Highlight the title
you’d like to hear in the OverDrive Media Console and click the ‘Play’
button.
- OverDrive Media Explorer opens and
begins playing the book.
- Use the On-Screen Navigation of the
Media Explorer to jump to specific sections. (Click on the part of the
book you would like to hear under Parts.)
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- In OverDrive Media Console, highlight a
book and click the ‘Transfer/burn’ button.
- Windows Media Player opens. Click the
‘Copy to CD or Device’ button.
- Select the track(s) to be
burned to CD by checking the box
next to the track name.
- Place a blank CDR in your CD-ROM drive
and ensure that your CD drive is selected in the right hand pane of
Windows Media Player.
- Click the ‘Copy’
button in the upper right hand corner of Windows Media Player to add
the track(s) to the list of files to be burned to disc. Windows Media
Player will inspect, convert, and temporarily copy the file in
preparation for burning. This process may take a few minutes. You may
track the Player’s progress by monitoring the ‘Status’ field in
Windows Media Player.
- When the disc is complete, Windows Media
Player will eject the disc and the status field will indicate ‘Complete’.
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Check here for a list of compatible
devices.
- In OverDrive Media Console, highlight a
book and click the ‘Transfer/burn’ button.
- Windows Media Player opens. Click the
‘Copy to CD or Device’ button.
- Select the track(s) to be
burned to CD by checking the box
next to the track name.
- Connect your portable media device and
ensure that it is selected in the right hand pane of Windows Media
Player.
- Click the ‘Copy'
button in the upper right hand corner of Windows Media Player to copy
the track(s) to the portable device. Windows Media Player will inspect
and copy the file(s) to the device. This process should take less than
a minute, depending on how many files you transfer. You may track the
Player’s progress by monitoring the ‘Status’ field in Windows
Media Player.
- When the transfer is complete, the
status field in Windows Media Player will indicate ‘Complete’.
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Need Help? Here are some troubleshooting
tips from ListenNJ.
Additional error messages when downloading:
- The most common problem when attempting
to download a book is your computer's firewall, if you have one.
- If you are running Norton Internet
Security you will need to set up a rule to allow it to accept
downloads from OverDrive.
- Check your Windows XP firewall.
- "When I tried to download the
digital audio book the error message said I needed an Internet
connection."
- Your firewall may be blocking the
download. You must configure your firewall to permit the OverDrive
Media Console to access the Internet. If you have Norton Internet
Security or Norton Personal Firewall, you can use these
directions to configure it to permit the OverDrive Media
Console to access the Internet.
- Check Windows Media Player's
connection. To do so, open the Windows Media Player, go to Tools,
Options. Under Player Settings
select the option that says Connect to the Internet.
- Need more information? Have a question
not covered on this page or on the troubleshooting tips from ListenNJ?
During library hours, please call Media Services at 732-390-6777 or email
support. Click on East Brunswick Public Library
to send an email requesting additional assistance. When emailing
please send as much information as possible:
- Your operating system and the
browser you are using.
- Do you have a firewall?
- Steps to replicate the problem.
- Screen shots would be helpful.
- Exact text of error message.
- Anything else you can think of that
might be helpful.
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