East Lothian Council Library Service has a new audiobook offering for borrowers, providing a range of popular titles which you can listen to whenever and wherever you want.
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In order to enjoy the new service you need to create an account on the dedicated audiobook website.
Click on “Create a new account” and type in your East Lothian Council membership number. This can either be the number on your library card beginning with B, or your Smartcard number beginning with 63354.
Choose your favoured operating system (basically it’s either Windows or the Mac) and then fill out the online form with your details, e-mail address and a password of your choosing. In Preferences choose the option not to make the OneClick digital Media Manager your default player. You should then be ready to download.
If you are an Apple user the best method is to click on the Home tab and choose the link that gives you the option to download an App for your Apple device.
Whether you are using a PC or a Apple device, you’ll need to remember the Login details which you have created to download your books, and to look at them under the “My Collections” tab.
If you are a PC user the files come downloaded in a ZIP format. Save it to your PC and then double click the file to unzip it. Your operating system should allow you to do this. Once unzipped you have a bunch of MP3 files.
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These are big files so they may take a while to download. Arthur C. Clarke’s ‘The Collected Stories Volume Four’ came in at 200MB zipped and took about 8 minutes to download. However, once completed and unzipped you can either listen to them on your PC/Mac or put them on your favourite audio player or phone to listen to on the move.
It is as easy to manage your files like this as it is to download the “Clipper media player” from the website. The maximum borrowing time seems to be 21 days.
If you have any questions on the new audiobook facilities you can contact the Library Service.
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