Digital Downloads

*This collection is available to library card holders in the following communities: Clinton Township, Macomb Township, Center Line, Fraser, Lenox Township, Mount Clemens, New Baltimore, Romeo, Roseville, Shelby Township, and St. Clair Shores.*

You can browse the collection of downloadable one of two ways:
- Go directly to the website for Suburban Library Cooperative's (SLC) OverDrive Collection
- Search the Clinton-Macomb Public Library online catalog (tip: limit to the All Downloadables from Overdrive collection) and follow the website link to preview the title. You will be redirected to the Suburban Library Cooperative's OverDrive collection where you will browse, select, and checkout titles.

Quick Start Guides

For help with audio books, please download the CMPL Quick Start Guide to Digital Downloads for Audio Books.
For help with eBooks, please download the CMPL Quick Start Guide to Digital Downloads for eBooks.
For help with Kindle eBooks, please download the CMPL Quick Start Guide to Digital Downloads for Kindle eBooks.
For help with mobile eBooks and audiobooks, please download the CMPL Quick Start Guide to Digital Downloads for Mobile Devices.
To evaluate if your portable device is compatible with OverDrive Media Console consult this guide.
If you are a print disabled Suburban Library Cooperative Media Download Center patron, you may qualify for a free Library Ebook Access Program (LEAP) subscription at Bookshare.

Quick Reference -- Circulation of Downloaded Materials

Audio book circulation -- default loan period is 7 days (maximum is 14 days)

eBook circulation -- default loan period is 7 days (maximum is 14 days)

Movie circulation -- default loan period is 3 days (maximum is 7 days)

Music circulation -- default loan period is 3 days (maximum is 7 days)

Patrons can have up to 5 digital titles on hold at one time

Patrons have 72 hours to check out a title for which they have received a hold notification

Patrons can place up to 5 digital titles in their cart at one time

Titles stay in a patron's cart for 30-minutes before reverting back to general circulation

Patrons can have up to 5 digital titles checked out at one time

There are no overdue fees on digital downloads, access to the title simply expires.

The items you have checked out cannot be renewed, but you can check them out again if they are available when the checkout expires.

Can't get enough? Want more eBooks?

Beyond Overdrive there are a variety of no-cost/low-cost alternatives for finding eBooks. Some of our favorites include:

Munseys offers 20,000 titles in 12 formats. The proper choice for Kindles, Nooks and Sony Readers are explicitly identified. Titles can be found by searching author, title or tags. Lots of books have tags, most don’t. You can also browse by category. To find the categories when you are on the main page, scroll down to a red box with 39 categories. Munseys’ e-book collection has many titles found in the other collections below. However, the “pulp fiction” and “orient express” seem unique to me. Tip: When downloading a title, first click “Select One” to choose the desired format, then click “download.”
Palimpsest Online provides high-quality pdf titles by over 70 authors. Titles are mostly European and American serious novels, but also include the King James Bible, plays, poetry, fables, epic sagas, philosophy and histories. Extensive collection of P.G. Wodehouse titles. The numbers "6X9" refers to 6 inches by 9 inches. The other size is "3X5" for 3 inches by 5 inches.
Feedbooks provides high-quality titles in a variety of formats: ePub, PDF, MobiPocket/Kindle. This site contains: Public domain classic fiction and nonfiction titles can be browsed by 30 categories or 600 authors; and titles by new authors.
Manybooks provides thousands of Project Gutenberg ebooks in dozens of formats including PDF, ePub, Kindle, Sony Reader, etc. The site offers search, advanced searching and browsing by author, title and over 60 genres.
PDFBooks offers classics and unpublished fiction and nonfiction in pdf format. Titles can be searched or browsed by author. The Web page for each title gives a description and table of contents.
DigitalBookIndex offers an extensive list of nonfiction in pdf, ePub and even Kindle formats mixed with Web books and even some subscription titles. Search by author or title or browse by subject. Contains a special American studies section.
Directory of ebook publishers lists over 30 publishers selling new ebooks for $1.50 to $10 with a median price of $4.50.