Knox County Public Library, Knoxville, TN

Update your OverDrive Media Console app

OverDrive has released version 2.4 of OverDrive® Media Console™ for Android™, BlackBerry® and Windows Phone.

With this release…

• Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone users can return audiobooks as well as eBooks.
• Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone users can find definitions while reading using the dictionary lookup feature.

Audiobook return and dictionary lookup are coming soon for iOS.

The system requirements are still the same. The free apps can be installed on phones and devices running…

• Android OS v1.5 (or newer)
• Touch screen BlackBerry OS v4.7 (or newer)
• Non-touch screen BlackBerry OS v4.5 (or newer)
• Windows Phone 7

The updated app is available from:

• Android Market
• BlackBerry AppWorld™
• MobiHand™ App Store
• Windows Marketplace
• http://www.overdrive.com/software/omc

Finding more read-alikes

NoveList displays reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and School Library Journals in Series and Title Detail pages when available, and these are great sources of information when you're deciding whether to pick a book up. But did you know that you can use the Advanced Search to mine those rich reviews to help you pick your next great read?

For example, you can use reviews to find read-alikes. Let’s say you loved the Kay Scarpetta mysteries, but you’ve already read the series suggested in the "NoveList Also Recommends" section of the Series Detail page:

Use the Advanced Search to look for more suggestions:

1. Access the Advanced Search page by clicking the Advanced Search link in the Search For… box on the homepage.
2. In the first field, enter scarpetta, and select RV Review from the adjacent drop-down.
3. In the next row, select NOT from the Boolean drop-down.
4. Type cornwell, patricia daniels (or just patricia cornwell) in the next field, and select AU Author from the adjacent drop-down.
   
   
5. Click Search.

This will give you a list of titles with reviews that mention the Kay Scarpetta mysteries, without listing the titles written by Patricia Cornwell.

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