eBooks, eAudiobooks, and eMagazines at the Anoka County Library are available from these providers:
eBooks and eAudiobooks from OverDrive can be downloaded to your computer, e-book reader or mobile device.
eBooks from 3M Cloud Library can be downloaded to your computer, e-book reader or mobile device.
Establish a free account with OneClickDigital and check out and download eAudiobooks.
Establish a free account to download full issues of magazines. Titles are always available, and there are never any due dates.
Create your account and browse the collection.
Need more help? Contact Zinio.
Help with Downloading eBooks
Drop in help is available at the Northtown Library, Mondays, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. and at the Rum River Library on Wednesdays, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Presentation - Devices other than Kindle
Getting Started with eAudiobooks Downloads
eBooks: A How-to Guide for Non-Kindle Devices
Library Compatible eBook Devices
Also, check out OverDrive Help. Choose "My Help" to receive help to set up your device.
Can't find what you need? Contact support at LibraryEBookHelp@co.anoka.mn.us.
Borrowing and Renewal Policies
Anoka County Library and Columbia Heights Public Library card holders may check out eBooks and eAudiobooks. Due to subscription agreements, other library system library barcodes will not be recognized.
A PIN is also required for checkout.
Customers are allowed to have 5 items checked out at a time.
At the time of check out, customers may choose to keep a title for 7 days or 14 days.
While browsing, customers may have up to 6 items in their cart at any time.
If a title is checked out, a request for the title may be placed.
Customers are allowed to have 5 items on request at a time.
An email address is required to place a request. Notification that a request is available for check out is sent to this
email address.
After notification, available requested items are held for 3 days. After that time, the request moves to the next
person on the hold list.
It is possible to return eBooks early.
Customers must pay their fines down below $10, in order to be able to check out titles. (This matches our print
material fine policy).
Titles cannot be renewed, but as soon as the lending period expires, if no one else has requested the title, it may be
checked out again.
Note: eBooks and eAudiobooks cannot be downloaded to the library’s publicly used computers.
