Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Freading: Downloadable ebooks




To Access Freading on your Computer


2. On the right side of the page follow the link to “install” Adobe Digital Editions Installer

3. You must log in with your Adobe ID within the Adobe Digital Editions. (If you have more than one Adobe account, make sure you know which account is correct.)

4. Once installed, go back to the freading front page and click “login” in the top right corner.

5. Using the barcode on the back of your CWC ID, or library card, enter your card number and the pin “wyld”

6. Once you are logged in, browse the books by “top downloads”, “new arrivals”, or “categories”.

7. Once you've found a book you want, click the book, and it will bring up a new page.

8. On the new page, under the picture there is a download link, click that to download the book.

9. Each book costs a certain amount of “tokens” and are readable for 2 weeks. You may renew a book once the two weeks are over for another charge of tokens

10. Once you have downloaded the book you must “open” it.

11. Opening the downloaded file it should make it appear in your Adobe Digital Editions.

12. To access this book from another device, open the Freading App on that device and from the store “redownload” the book onto your device.



How to Access Freading on Kindle Fire (Freading does not work on standard Kindles)

1. Go to the settings on the Kindle Fire (it is the bicycle gear icon at the top) and go to “device”. Turn on the switch for allowing unknown applications.

2. Go to the browser on your Kindle Fire and type in m.getjar.com.

3. In the search box on the top right corner of the m.getjar.com main page, type in “freading”

4. Select the freading app and a new page will open. On this page, click “download”

5. This will prompt you to download the getjar app, follow the instructions for downloading.

6. Once the get jar app has downloaded, open the app and follow steps 3 and 4 again to download the freading app.

7. Once the app has downloaded, you must hit “install” to finish installing the app.

8. Once installed, open the app and log in by hitting the options button on the bottom middle of the screen (in between the “back” button and the “search” button).

9. Click “Account”

From here you either need to log into your Adobe ID, or create one. If you need to create one, simply click the “sign up” link at www.adobe.com and follow the steps to create a user name and password. (follow steps below for creating an Adobe ID)

10. Once you enter your user name and password, hit “activate”

11. Then hit the “back” button at the bottom of the screen.

12. Once you are back in the freading library, hit the “option” button at the bottom of the screen and hit “store”

13. In the store, in the right corner, hit “login”

14. Enter zip code “82501”

15. Using the barcode on the back of your student ID, or library card, enter your card number and the pin “wyld”

16. Once you are logged in, browse the books by “top downloads”, “new arrivals”, or “categories”.

17. Once you've found a book you want, click the book, and it will bring up a new page.

18. On the new page, under the picture there is a download link, click that to download the book.

19. Each book costs a certain amount of “tokens” and are readable for 2 weeks. You may renew a book once the two weeks are over for another charge of tokens

20. Once you have downloaded the book you must “open” it.

21. Opening the downloaded file it should make it appear in your Adobe Digital Editions.

22. To access this book from another device, open the Freading App on that device and from the store “redownload” the book onto your device.



How to Access Freading on the iPad
1. Download the Freading app from the Apple Store.

2. Go to Adobe, if you do not have an Adobe account and register an account.

3. To enter your Adobe id into your Freading app, click on the login, or the letter i,  on the lower right hand side of your screen, (if you have more than one Adobe account, make sure you know which account is correct.)

4. Go to www.freading.com using the web browser Safari.

5. Log in to Freading by entering the name of  the College, the zip code of the college, town and state the college is located in. Once entered, select Wyoming State Library. Now enter your barcode on the back of your CWC ID, or library card, enter your card number and your PIN (the default PIN is WYLD).

6. Once you are logged in, browse the books by “top downloads”, “new arrivals”, or “categories."

7. Once you've found a book you want, click the book, and it will bring up a new page.

8. On the new page, under the picture there is a download link, click that to download the book.

9. Each book costs a certain amount of “tokens” and are readable for 2 weeks. You may renew a book once the two weeks are over for another charge of tokens

10. Once you have downloaded the book you must “open” it in your Freading app. 


Creating an Adobe ID


1. In the top right corner click “sign in”

2. On the left of the page click “Create Adobe Account”

Follow the steps



Additional notes:


  • The Nook family of readers from Barnes & Noble cannot download directly from Freading, but you can download books to your computer and then transfer them to the Nook with Adobe Digital Editions.
  • Most Android based tablets and phones. Devices must be at least version 2.2 of Android and have access to the full Android App Market. Find the App in the Android Market and install. Register with the Adobe Digital Editions user id and download books directly with the App.

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