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OverDrive Media Console

OverDrive is a very common provider for eBooks and Audiobooks for the many public libraries. The ODMC is the application used to download resources.

OD now supports MP3 for all its audio-books and epub for their ebooks. This allows you to use it on Linux.

Install and Setup

Step 1. Dependencies

To use ODMC on Linux, you need to install wine and winetricks. On a debian-based system, you can do:

sudo apt-get install wine-stable winetricks -qy

Step 2. Download ODMC

Follow this link to download the Windows version:

http://omc.overdrive.com/windows.php

Step 2.5 Setup Wine for 32 Bit Usage

rm -r -f ~/.wine
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine wine wineboot

###Step 3. Install using Wine This is a two step process. First, we need to install Windows Media Player 10:

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine winetricks wmp10

Then, we install the file we downloaded in Step 2

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine wine msiexec /i ODMediaConsoleSetup.msi

####Resources

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