But if you’re someone who has multiple books going at once, the airplane mode solution might not be for you. If you’re a one-book-at-a-time kind of person, this won’t matter. If you decide you want to add another ebook to your library, you’ll have to wait until you’re finished with airplane mode before you can download it.

However, airplane mode still might be a problem. This isn’t as much of a problem for devices that are specifically ereaders, like Kindles and NOOKs (or Kobos or whatever older ereader you may have-RIP Sony Reader). This will also be the case with tablets, like iPads, Kindle Fires, and Samsung Galaxy Tablets.

Without the use of the internet through either data or WiFi, you won’t be able to access apps that require an internet connection. If you rely on a smartphone to read and want to keep your library ebooks longer, putting your phone in airplane mode essentially turns it into a brick (or, you know, just a regular phone that also has reading capabilities and a limited library and maybe some games). And the best part is, if someone else has a hold on the title, they still get access as they would if you hadn’t gone into airplane mode. Because OverDrive relies on an internet connection to retrieve the book and because airplane mode disables the internet connection, doing this means you get to keep your book for longer. This works for any ereader, tablet, or smartphone. Before OverDrive reaches back through the ether to reclaim their content, throw your device into airplane mode. You could find out how to keep library ebooks longer. You could wait for the next lending cycle and download it again, but by then you’ll forget half of the book’s nearly-600 characters and you’ll have to start all over again. And someone has a hold on it, so it’s bye-bye, Tolstoy.

How will you possibly read all of those books during the limited loan period? Or maybe you decided it was high time you read War and Peace, so you download it with the greatest intentions of finishing the whole damn book in your allotted time, but quickly discover three weeks with War and Peace isn’t sufficient. All of a sudden, you’ve got email notifications left and right that your book is ready for download (or has been automatically downloaded to your device). If you have an ereader, it can be easy to get a little wild with the eholds through OverDrive.

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