What you need:

• A King County Library System card.

• A computer with one of the following operating systems: Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition (SE); Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (ME); Microsoft Windows NT® 4.0; Microsoft Windows 2000 (Professional or Server®); Microsoft Windows XP (Professional, Home, or Tablet PC edition)

(The Macintosh platform is not supported, so it won't work on iPod.)

• This software: Overdrive Media Console; Windows Media Player version 9.0 or higher. (Both are available for free and can be downloaded from ebooks.kcls.org.)

Finding an audio e-book:

Visit ebooks.kcls.org

• You can either click on the link that says "Click here to begin browsing the next generation of audio books"

• Or, to view selected new titles, scroll down and browse the section called "What's New in Audio Books"

• When you find a title you want, click on "Add to bag"

• Then click on "Proceed to check out"

• Type in your library-card number, including leading zeros.

• Click on "Confirm check out"

• Click on download to download the book. That will open up Overdrive Media Console and you will be asked where you want to save the e-book.

• Then it will ask you which chapters you want to download.

• Click "OK." The book will begin to download.

How to play:

• To hear the book, double click on the book-jacket icon. To hear a specific chapter, double click on that chapter and the chapter that you selected will begin playing

• Once you have downloaded your book, you can click on "transfer/burn" and that will open up Windows Media Player and you can transfer the device to your MP3 player or burn it onto a CD.