Readers' Services
Download ebooks to a computer or mobile device without worrying about late fees. Current, popular titles are available just for Haddonfield borrowers.
Stream or download ebooks, comics, audiobooks, movies, music, & TV for all ages. Due to ever-growing circulation numbers and with an eye to managing resources, monthly per patron borrowing is set to 4.
Stream or download audiobooks and ebooks to a computer or mobile device. Haddonfield PL participates in the South Jersey OverDrive consortium.
Use your library card to access ebooks through the axis 360 website or app. Offline reading is available. Provided by the New Jersey State Library.
Read non-fiction ebooks right from your browser. Great for research and assignments!
Beanstack is our web-based reading and activity challenge
management software. It allows you to track how many pages or minutes you've read, the titles you've read, compete for prizes, and view upcoming events, all from the website or app!
Visit our ebook FAQs.
Changes coming to the OverDrive app...
In early 2023, the OverDrive app will be discontinued. We encourage you to make the switch to Libby, a newer reading app. Libby is made by the same people as OverDrive, with the same goal of connecting you to your library and to your favorite books, audiobooks, and magazines.
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Why is OverDrive winding down the OverDrive app?
The company believes that Libby is the best reading experience for all users. With valuable partner and user feedback, they're constantly enhancing the app and adding new features to engage readers.
They also want to make it easier to promote our digital library to our users. Having one app will simplify how we train users, answer questions, and stay up to date with changes.
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How does removing the OverDrive app from app stores affect existing app users?
During the first phase, existing OverDrive app users will be able to continue browsing, borrowing, and enjoying titles from your library in the app. -
Will all OverDrive app users be required to switch to Libby?
Yes, eventually. It’s the goal to have most OverDrive app users migrated to Libby by the end of 2022. We’ll keep you updated about plans and timing for officially retiring the OverDrive app and provide plenty of notice to ensure a smooth transition.
For more information on using Libby, check out this Help page or contact the Library for further assistance.
How to Find Your Perfect Book
Book Reviews Online
Goodreads is the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations. Our mission is to help people find and share books they love. Goodreads launched in January 2007. A few things you can do on Goodreads:
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See what books your friends are reading.
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Track the books you're reading, have read, and want to read.
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Check out your personalized book recommendations. Our recommendation engine analyzes 20 billion data points to give suggestions tailored to your literary tastes.
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Find out if a book is a good fit for you from our community’s reviews.
Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly, familiarly known in the book world as PW and "the bible of the book business," is a weekly news magazine focused on the international book publishing business. It is targeted at publishers, booksellers, librarians, literary agents, authors, and the media. It offers feature articles and news on all aspects of the book business, bestsellers lists in a number of categories, and industry statistics, but its best-known service is pre-publication book reviews, publishing some 9,000 per year.
BOOK MARKS FROM LITERARY HUB
Every day, the Book Marks staff scours the most important and active outlets of literary journalism in the US—from established national broadsheets to regional weeklies and alternative litblogs—and logs their book reviews. When a book is reviewed by at least three outlets, each of those reviews is assigned an individual rating (Rave, Positive, Mixed, or Pan). These ratings are then averaged into a result and the book becomes part of our Book Marks database. Each book’s cumulative rating functions as both a general critical assessment and, more significantly, as an introduction to the range of voices and opinions that make up the world of American literary criticism. These opinions are accompanied by pull quotes representative of the overall stance of each individual review, and readers can click through to the full review at its source.