Downloading and Transferring an ebook to a Nook from Alliance Digital Media Library (ADML)

Step One--Getting-to-Know ADML

From your computer, go to http://alliance.lib.overdrive.com  This site contains ebooks and
audiobooks that you can borrow much as you would any other library material. This site is shared by
many libraries in the Resource Sharing Alliance (RSA). If you have a library card at any of the participating
libraries, you can use this service. All of the materials on this site are purchased by the participating libraries from the Overdrive company.

If you need help using this site, click on the Home tab near the top of the screen.  Click on the Guided Tour and/or Quick-Start Guide for step-by-step instructions.  As always, don't hesitate to contact library staff for assistance.  446-9575

Step Two--Downloading Adobe Digital Editions

OverDrive uses Adobe Digital Editions software to manage its electronic copyright rules for ebooks.
(This is also called DRM or Digital Rights Management.) You will have to install Adobe Digital Editions on
your PC in order to get an ebook from the ADML Catalog to your Nook. Here is how you do it.

Click on Alliance Digital Media Home to get to the main page of the ADML Catalog. Scroll down the left
side of the screen until you find the link to Adobe Digital Editions under Software Downloads.

Click on that link, then click on “Get ADOBE DIGITAL EDITIONS”.

This will take you to the Adobe site. If you have time, read the page. If you’re in a hurry, find
the Download now link near the top of the screen on the right, and click it.

This will take you down the screen to the Adobe Digital Editions Installer. Adobe Digital Editions
requires Adobe Flash in order to run. If you do not already have Flash on your PC, the Installer will
install that first, then install Adobe Digital Editions. There may be several steps on your PC, so read what
the Installer box says, and follow its instructions.

If you have a fast Internet connection (5 Mbps or faster) this should take less than a minute. If you have
a slower connection, it will take longer.

Adobe Digital Editions will launch itself, as soon as it is installed. It will then ask you if you want to
create an Adobe ID and “authorize” the PC you are using. Say “yes”. All you need is an email address
and a password. Adobe will step you through the process and will associate the MAC Address of your PC
with your Adobe ID.

Your PC’s MAC address is like the VIN on your car. It identifies your PC as positively as your VIN
identifies your car. You can associate up to six devices (PC’s or eReaders) with one Adobe ID. When you
download a book from the ADML Catalog, you can put it on all six of these devices at the same time, if
you want to. Think of the devices as a “family” of PC’s and eReaders that Adobe and OverDrive will
allow to “share” the same book.

Step Three--Searching for and Downloading an ebook to your Computer

Now that you have Adobe Digital Editions on your PC, you can return to the ADML Catalog and
download an eBook. Here is how to find one in a hurry.

Click on Alliance Digital Media Home, then click on My Account.  Click on the down arrow beside the [Select Library] box and click on your home library.

Enter your library card number and PIN. Your PIN is the same one you use to access the RSA Catalog from
home to access your library account and renew and place holds on materials. (If you don't know your PIN, contact your library)
Click on Advanced Search, which is just below the main search box.

Click the down arrow in the box that says All formats, then click on Adobe EPUB ebook.

Now, click a check into the box near the bottom that is labeled “Only show titles with copies available”

Now click Search.

Sort the displayed titles by title, creator, release date or whatever you wish, then scroll through them.

When you find one you like, click on Add to Cart, then click on Proceed to Checkout.

Click on Confirm checkout.

Click on Download.

When asked whether you want to open or save this file, click on Open.

This will cause Adobe Digital Editions to open on your PC, and within a few seconds the book will
download and show you its cover.

You can read the book on your PC, and Adobe Digital Editions makes this easy and pleasant, but we
won’t stop here. We want to get the book onto your Nook.

Step Four--Transferring the ebook to your Nook

Leave Adobe Digital Editions open, but “close” the book you downloaded. You can do this by clicking on
the icon in the upper left that looks like three book spines standing together. If you pass your cursor
over it, you will see “Go to Library view”.

Find your Nook and the cable you use to charge it with.

Take the wall plug end off. You will see a standard computer USB plug.

Make sure your Nook is powered ON. It can be asleep, but not OFF.

Connect the small end of the cable to your Nook, as you do when you are charging it.

Connect the USB end to any USB port on your PC. The USB end has a “right side up” and will go in only
one way. Don’t try to force it in upside down.

Your PC and the Nook will introduce themselves to one another and to Adobe Digital Editions. 

A pop-up window on your PC will display the Adobe ID that you just created a few moments ago.

Click on Authorize Device.

Adobe will add your Nook to the “family” of devices that can share the book you just downloaded.

Once Adobe had authorized your Nook, it will appear (in Adobe Digital Editions) as the word “Nook” at
the bottom of the list of Bookshelves on the left side of your screen.

To transfer the eBook that you just downloaded to your Nook, just click on its cover and drag the cover
onto the word “Nook”. While you are dragging the cover, you will see a red circle with a white X inside
it near your cursor. When you are close enough to the Nook for the transfer to work, the red circle will
turn green, and the X will become a + (Plus sign). When you see that, just “drop” the book cover, and it
will transfer to the Nook very quickly. That’s right—transfer is just “drag and drop”.

Step Five--Getting closer to the FUN part - Reading the ebook on your Nook

You can download and transfer another book, if you want to. You can borrow up to two books at a time from
the ADML Catalog. Or you can stop with one, so you can see how it works on the Nook.

When your Nook is fully “loaded”, find the icon on the right side of your taskbar (at the bottom of your
PC screen) that says “Safely remove hardware”. It is a gray rectangle with a green arrow above it,
pointing left. When you click it, you should see the words “Safely remove…” and a reference to the
Drive Letter your Nook is using.

Disconnect your Nook and navigate to My Documents on it. This is a different file from your B&N
Library. The Nook files books that you have purchased from Barnes and Noble in one folder and books
that you add from other sources in another folder.

When you have found that folder and the book you just borrowed, you can read it as usual.

When the book is due, it will stay on your Nook, but will be ‘dead’ and unreadable. You should delete it
to save space.

This process may seem complicated the first time you do it. However, you only have to install and
authorize Adobe Digital Editions once. After that, you can visit the ADML Catalog, find the ebooks you
want, check them out, download them to Adobe Digital Editions, connect your Nook, and just drag them
onto it, and ...Enjoy!!