BOOKWORMS will revel in the news that the Umhlanga Library has recently gone digital.

Through a partnership with the Department of Arts and Culture, the library has added eBooks to its list of services.

More than 160 popular fiction titles are currently available to download.

According to the library’s Veni Reddy, more titles will be added every month.

Library members can ‘check out’ three digital books for a period of three weeks.

Other services offered by the facility include, access to computers for research and assignments, WiFi as well as reference material, five newspaper subscriptions, audio-visual books, magazines and a volumes of other novels and books.

To access the eBooks.
1. Join the Umhlanga Library to receive a library card and ask to be registered for the eBooks service.
2. Install the OverDrive app from your phone or tablet’s application manager or through the Web browser – app.overdrive.com.
3. Open the OverDrive app to sign up for a free account.
4. Use the apps’s find a library options to find and save your library’s OverDrive website.
5. Click on your library’s OverDrive website and then scroll through the available titles, once you have found a novel that you would like to read click borrow and log in with your library number.

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