our topic today is downloading the books from the peters township public library website to get to our website you would go under browser and type w w w dot p t library dot org on the address field that will bring it to our website at our website you're looking for audio book an ebook downloads which is in green on the main page when you click on that it brings up the audio e book an audio book downloads portion and displays our selection of books and the the audio or e books that you can download  but before you can actually download books you have to install some software on your p c and you do that by scrolling down to the bottom of the screen and over on the left hand side there is a little button that you can click on before you adobe digital editions when you do that you will be asked some very brief questions as to who you are and so forth and they will download and install a dobe digital editions onto your computer this is the software that you will use to manage the books that your truck out when you check books out from our collection what will happen is on your desktop will be adobe digital editions and this is what it looks like when it starts up as you can see i already have a few items on that i've downloaded and they all three of them have expired will actually do a download so you can see what happens ok actually check out a book you have to be able to find it and there are two ways to do that one way is if you happen to know the author or the title you can type the author or the title into the quick search field over here and click on go and it will bring up if we have that book will bring it up and display it for you the alternative is to browse the collection and to do that since we're interested in e books let's take a look at our newly added e books we can click on complete list over here to the right and it brings up a complete list of the e books that we have in our collection now it's very important when you do this that you look over here on the right hand side if it says place in the hold it means that that particular book that you're interested in is checked out to someone else at this particular point in time and that you have to wait for it to be checked b again before you can check it out but you can place in the hold so that you will get an e mail message that the book is back in you can go and check it out so basically what we're looking for is one that does not say place  about what the book is about this is a description done here who the author is the publisher and so forth if we are indeed interested in this book what we can do is click on add to cart over here to the right and then  it brings up this screen which allows us to either continue browsing if we want to check out more books or proceed to check out what i'm going to do is proceed to check out in this case at this point we are asked for our library card number in order to check out a book even though it's an e book you have to have a peters township public library library card and someone to type in my library card number now at this point i have a choice of checking the item out for either seven days or fourteen days the reason for that is because in the past especially with audio books you could not return them early so you would if you were a fast listener or a fast reader and you finished the book in one week you still it was still checked out to you for the full to two week period so to eliminate that problem we give you the option of checking it out for one week that's seven days so i'm gonna check it out for one week instead of two leagues although you could check it out for two weeks and then i'm going to click on confirm checkout down at the bottom and now the book has been checked out to my account and on the screen there's a little button right below the picture of the book's cover that says download at this point i will click on the download button and a pop up pops up and says ok do you want me to open it or save it you want to save it to your hard drive so click on save and that brings up the windows save as screen this is where you would go to select a directory within your hard drive that you would like to save your book to i highly recommend saving it to my if you do not already have a directory called my digital editions create a directory called my digital additions and save it to my digital editions the reason for that is because that is where i do digital editions is going to look at to find your books so we can save it and the download is complete at this point another pop up pops up and says you want to open it when you click on open it it opens up automatically adobe digital editions and adobe digital editions completes the download and there is the book ok now at this point adobe digital editions changes modes to reading mode so i can read the book directly on my p c if i want to  can actually read the book there it is or if i'm not interested in reading the book i can transfer the book to a e book reader of the ebook reader that i brought along with me today is called a pan digital novel and when i plug it in as soon as it turns on it will be recognized by my p c and it will appear on the left hand side since i transferred to change i'm  says i'd like to authorize this device to storybooks and it's finished actually it happens very quickly i now want to switch modes on adobe digital editions from reading mode to my library mode and you notice that on the left hand side of my screen there is p d novel that's my device ebook reader at this point i can just turn off my p c disconnect my ebook  ebook reader and we can do this for since i've checked it out for seven days for the next seven days after which it becomes inoperable it's still on the book reader it's still on our hard drive but we just can't use it at that point begin go ahead and delete it using the regular deletion procedures on our