| The Daniel Boone Regional Library (DBRL) offers an online collection of 22,500 eBooks and 1,600 downloadable audiobooks through a subscription to NetLibrary. DBRL cardholders have access to these electronic collections via our Web site 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
To use this service, you need to set up a free NetLibrary account at one of the DBRL libraries in Ashland, Columbia or Fulton. After you create an account, you can check out eBooks from any computer with access to the Internet. You can download audiobooks anytime from home, or you can bring your laptop to the Columbia or Callaway County Public Libraries to take advantage of our wireless high-speed Internet connection. (You can also use a USB flash drive to download audiobooks at public access computers at any DBRL library.)
Downloadable Audiobooks
 Through NetLibrary and Recorded Books, LLC, the library has a collection of more than 1000 unabridged audiobooks that can be checked out (for three weeks) from your home computer or laptop. You can listen to these books on a computer, a portable music player or other portable devices. (Your portable device must support the secure Windows Media Audio, "Plays for Sure," format to play audiobooks with this service. The new Microsoft Zune™ portable media players are not compatible with this service.) You won't ever have to wait to check out a popular book, because a nearly unlimited number of people can have a book at the same time. After 21 days, the license expires and you can no longer play the book. Audiobooks can be renewed once and you can check out up to 10 titles at a time.
Our collection includes classics, mysteries, westerns, popular fiction, humor, memoirs, self-help books and more. Our subscription also includes the highly-regarded Pimsleur series of foreign language and ESL courses and the CEV Holy Bible. Thirty new titles will be added each month.
The technology used for these audiobooks is not compatible with Apple computers or iPods. We hope that as this technology advances we will be able to offer something that works for everyone.
Funds to begin this new service were provided by the Friends of the Columbia Public Library.
eBooks
 Electronic books are books you can read on your computer. Rather than checking out a physical book from the library and taking it home, you check out and read these books online for up to four hours at a time. Most of the titles currently available are adult non-fiction or classic literature.
You can check out an electronic book anytime of the day or night from your computer. Once you've checked out an eBook, you can do keyword searching within it, create bookmarks and make personal notes. You can print excerpts from your book and there is also a dictionary available (American Heritage, 4th ed.) complete with illustrations.
Materials in both of these formats appear in the library catalog alongside traditional books and audio materials. The entries have a link to the NetLibrary site where you must log in before you can use an eBook or download audiobooks.
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