E-Resources at McGill Libraries

Ongoing: We are seeing an issues with authentication for Kobo E-Readers with OverDrive when passing via McGill's SSO (Single Sign On) mechanism. The Kobo readers are sometimes not prompting the user with a keypad to enter their username and/or password, or are logging-in users but then not permitting borrowing of OverDrive e-books. This is due to the way the Kobo web-browser processes html pages. 

Users can log into their OverDrive account using the web-version (https://mcgill.overdrive.com) and borrow e-books there first. They should be able to then sync the e-book with their Kobo. In some instances, however, users are still unable to open the downloaded e-book on their Kobo.

Kobo is planning an update to their reader browser to fix this compatibility issue at a later date (to be determined).