Welcome to our Digital Download Center!  If you need help on how to find and download ebooks please see the links at the bottom of this page.

eLibrary NJ (formerly ListenNJ) -- This collection consists of fiction and non-fiction audiobooks and ebooks, with an emphasis on popular fiction.

For step by step instructions on downloading audiobooks to an iPhone click here and here.  For iPad instructions click here.

EBSCO's eBooks (formerly NetLibrary) houses thousands of eBook titles from a variety of publishers.  Most of the titles are non-fiction. All the titles can be read online, without a download but most are downloadable as well.

This link goes to EBSCO's Select Databases page.  The eBook link is at the bottom of the page.

Please watch this tutorial to learn more about EBSCO's eBooks.

Our music selection consists of classical music, kids music, jazz, orchestral, and rock - all brought to you by a company called Overdrive. All pieces can be downloaded and played on your computer or a mobile device and many can even be burned onto a CD. 

Ebooks

Music and Movies

Audiobooks

Library Elf is a service that informs you when your books are overdue and  when your holds are ready to be picked up.  Use Library Elf to keep track of your account, and even the accounts of your children.  If you wish to avoid fines and benefit from instantaneous notification for pickups Library Elf is a great service for you. 

Both EBSCO eBooks and ListenNJ work similarly if you are trying to download a book to your portable reader.  If you have a non-Kindle ereader and wish to download library ebooks, you must download the ebooks to your computer first to a free program called Adobe Digital Editions (you will see many links to download sites when you try to download for the first time)

For instructions on how to download books to an ereader, please view this tutorial.  The instructions are for a Nook, but other devices except the Kindle work similarly. 

If you have an iPad you will need to download the Overdrive Media Console app.  More instructions for iPad downloading are here.  You will need to have an Adobe ID to read books. Getting this is free and you will be prompted to create an ID after you download Overdrive.  If you are using the Kindle app you need to have an Amazon account. 

If you have a Kindle, this Kindle-specific tutorial or this tutorial will be of help to you.  You do not need to download Adobe Digital Editions to download books to your Kindle. The Kindle does not handle as many ebook formats as other readers.  Adobe ePub and PDF books are not readable.

The tutorials only talk about getting books from Overdrive (which you can access through ListenNJ), but the Westfield Library subscribes to another eBook service called EBSCO eBooks.  EBSCO ebooks are mostly non-fiction.  A great thing about EBSCO ebooks is that the wait times for books are typically nil to very short.

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