Presenting ebooks from the East Albemarle Regional Library System!

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1 Presenting ebooks from the East Albemarle Regional Library System! 3M Cloud Library ebooks from the East Albemarle Regional Library System can be read on your ios (Apple) or Android mobile device or read on a Windows-based computer or downloaded to a Windows-based computer and then transferred to an ebook reader. What Devices can I use? 3M Cloud Library ebooks can currently be read on PCs, smart phones (Android and IPhone), IPads, as well as transferred from one of these devices to the following ereaders. Nooks, including Nook Color Literati Reader Sony ereader--older models only, not the newest Sony ereaders like model PRS-T1. Kobo Reader An app for both the Mac and the Kindle Fire are in the works. How Do I get Started? Download the 3M Cloud Library app at For IPad and IPhone (link will send you to ITunes App. Store). For Android Phone or tablets (link will send you to Google Play, formerly Android Market). You can view our collection by selecting NC and East Albemarle Regional Library at the bottom of the page, but remember you MUST install the 3M Cloud Library app on your computer in order to check out and read ebooks. FIRST USE FOR PC S The app works with Windows 7, Vista and XP. When you first launch the app, you will need to select your library and sign in. (You should only have to do this once on a personal computer you do not share). 1. Select State/North Carolina. 2. Select Library: East Albemarle Regional Library. 3. Enter Your Library-ID: use your library card barcode (This will be your 14 digit library card number). 4. Password this will be same as the PIN that you use to access our online catalog for placing holds and checking your account. If you have never used this feature of our online catalog, please call or stop by the library to receive a PIN for your library account. This PIN will be the password for your 3M Cloud Library account. 5. End User License Agreement: open this and click "agree" to continue. 6. Click the Log In button to finalize your setup.

2 Although these instructions are for the PC APP, the 3M Cloud Library app will appear very similar no matter what device or platform you are using. PC CLOUD LIBRARY APP FEATURES Use the 3M Cloud Library PC app to search, check out, and read ebooks from the Cloud Library. The PC app can also be used to transfer ebooks to a portable ebook reader such as a Nook or Kobo. Shelves Browse the most popular Cloud Library books and titles chosen by library staff. To browse all books on a shelf, click "List View". Categories Browse all Cloud Library books by subject. Click "List View" to see all titles in a subject. Click "Show All Subcategories" to break the subject area into subcategories. Search Search for books by words that appear in the title, author, or book details. My Books This is where you will find your account information as well as your current books, holds, messages, and more. Currently Reading This shows books you have currently checked out. Click "List View" to see more options, including "Check In" to return a book early. Hold List This shows books you have on hold, as well as an estimate of how soon the book will be available. To cancel a hold, click on Show All which will open a new page and the option to delete the hold will be available. Wish List Wish List functionality is not turned on at this time. Reading History This is a list of all Cloud Library books you have checked out. If you like, you can choose to delete your reading history at any time by scrolling to the bottom of the page and click on "Delete Reading History". Message Center This is where you will find any messages from the Library, including notices that your hold request items are ready for checkout. Account Profile Your account profile shows your library name, country, state, and city. If you like, you can change your library information by clicking the "Change Library Identification" button. If you have questions, please call your local library Currituck County Dare County Barco Hatteras Corolla Kill Devil Hills Moyock Manteo Pasquotank and Camden Counties Elizabeth City

3 PC APP CHECKING OUT AND READING When you find a book you would like, click the book's cover to bring up the "Book Detail" page. Here you can see a summary and similar books in the collection. Click the "Check Out" button to check out the book. The book will appear on your Currently Reading list and will download to your computer. If the book is currently checked out, click the gray "Add to Hold List" button to place the book on your Hold List. READING ON YOUR PC Under the Currently Reading section of My Books, click on the book cover to open it. The first time you open a book, Cloud Library needs to activate an Adobe ID. If you do not have Adobe Digital Editions installed on your computer, you will be given the option of using a system-provided Adobe ID or using your own. (Please note that this is NOT necessary, you do not need to install ADE unless you need it for another purpose). Make your choice and click "OK" to proceed. IMPORTANT: If you have already used your computer to download and transfer ebooks to a Nook, you already have an Adobe Digital Editions ID. When you first download the 3M Cloud Library, it will recognize this, and prompt you that Adobe Digital Editions is already installed on your computer. Please select your current Adobe ID, rather than the 3M Cloud Library ID, so you can continue to download non-3m ebooks from your personal computer to your Nook. Again, selecting the 3M Cloud Library ID will override any Adobe ID already on your computer and make any books already on your Nook inaccessible.

4 If you already have Adobe Digital Editions installed on your computer authorized with your personal Adobe ID, the 3M Cloud Library app will use your personal Adobe ID to continue. You will get this screen: (Click OK). This will minimize issues with other ebook services you may be using to download ebooks for an ereader. The book will open in a 5th tab, to the right of "My Books": Use the arrows on the right and left of the book's pages to move through the books. Click the upper right corner of the book for more options: CHANGE FONT SIZE Click the icon for book details. Click the large and small "A" icon to change text size. Click the magnifying glass icon to search inside the book by keyword. Click the square box to add bookmarks or notes. TRANSFERRING FROM YOUR PC TO YOUR EREADER You can transfer your books from your PC to a Nook or Kobo ebook reader. Turn on your ebook reader and connect it to your computer. In the 3M Cloud Library app, go to the "My Books" tab. Once the app has recognized your device, you should see a "connected to device" message and green "download to device" buttons for each book you have downloaded to your computer. Click the green "download to device" button to transfer the book to your ebook reader. When you are done transferring ebooks to your reader, eject the device. The book should now be available on your reader. (Some readers will file the title in a folder called "Digital Editions".)

5 Sharing Computers If you share a computer login with another person on your home computer and both want to use the 3M Cloud Library, you must log out of the 3M Cloud Library app each time so someone else can use it. To log out of the 3M app. 1. Go to the My Books screen. 2. Click on "Account Profile" 3. Select "modify library information You will receive a message that says: The application will have to be restarted in order to completely log out. Press okay to restart the application. 4. This will log you out and close the app. When you reopen the app it will ask for a log in. What are loan periods and limits? EBooks checkout for 14 days. Please realize that you can return your books early. We encourage you to return your book when you are finished so it can be used by another. If you would like to return a book early, go to "My Books" and click "List View". Click the red "Check In" button in the row for the book you would like to return. After 14 days, the book will automatically be returned to the collection. Please note that checking the book in on your account from your computer does not remove any book you have already transferred to an ereader (such as a Nook). At the end of the loan period, books on your e-reader will become inaccessible and will need to be deleted manually. Checkout limit is four, so you can have four books checked out at once. Holds limit is five. You can have up to five books on hold at a time. We realize this is a low number, but our initial collection is going to be small, and we want to make it available to as many people as possible. Holds are held for 3 days. You have 72 hours to check out a book once it becomes available to you. When a book becomes available, this message Digital book availability will appear in your Message Center, under My Books. After 72 hours it will pass to the next customer automatically, so you need to check your 3M Cloud Library account frequently. You do not receive an notification for a 3M Cloud Library book, like you may for traditional library materials.

6 (Please note: you must be a borrower in good standing, with no long overdue items or fines balance over $5.00 in order to access the 3M Cloud Library ebooks) Why don t I see any books by my favorite author? Most people don t realize that most of the large publishers currently refuse to sell or license ebooks for library lending. That means we can't buy ebooks written by many of the best-selling authors you want to read, and this is true no matter which platform we select to make them available to you (3M, Overdrive, B&T). As of spring 2012, only Random House and Harper Collins will license any of their ebooks to libraries. This means that Macmillan, Hachette, Penguin and Simon and Shuster do not license their ebooks to libraries. We don t like this any more than you do. Although Random House does license their ebooks to libraries, they charge three times the normal retail price, i.e. $50 to $80 a book. As a result our ability to provide Random House titles will be limited due to cost. Funding for the 3M Cloud Library ebooks has been provided by the Library Foundations of Currituck, Dare and Pasquotank Counties. Contributions to the Foundations for additional support of our digital library is most appreciated. I don t see any children s titles? Due to limited funds, the collection is restricted to adult titles at this time. Patrons wishing to help us add children s e-books to the collection, can make a donation to any of the County Library Foundations and stipulate the money be used for children s e-books (please specify age group if you have a preference). Currituck County Public Library Foundation 4261 Caratoke Hwy. Barco, NC Dare County Library Foundation PO Box 1000 Manteo, NC Pasquotank-Camden Library Foundation P.O. Box 5 Elizabeth City, NC 27907