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Lower Canada College LibGuides: Sora

What is Sora?

Sora, by Overdrive, is an application that enables LCC students to borrow e-books and audiobooks from the LCC Libraries twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Download the app onto your mobile device, log in with your student credentials, and open a world of reading!

Students, faculty and staff are permitted 3 checkouts and 3 holds. The borrowing period is 14 days. Borrowers who finish titles before the return date are encouraged to return the items manually so that they are available for others.

Logging in to Sora

  1. Download the app for free from your app store, or go to https://soraapp.com/library/qaisca.
  2. Search for Quebec Association of Independent Schools (QAIS).
  3. Select Lower Canada College from the list of participant schools.
  4. Sign in with your wearelcc Google account.
  5. Enjoy reading! If you want to browse only young adult titles, select in Preferences: Audience – Young adult.

8 STEPS

1. To read ebooks in Sora, go to Sora soraapp.com and click Find my school.

*You can also download the Sora app from the Apple Store or Google Play Store.

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2. Click My school isn't listed at the bottom.

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3. Search for QAIS. Click on This is my school.

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4. Click Select your school to see the drop-down menu

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5. Choose Lower Canada College from the drop-down menu

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6. Click Sign-in using Lower Canada College

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7. Click Sign in with Google

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8. Choose a book

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Here's an interactive tutorial

** Best experienced in Full Screen (click the icon in the top right corner before you begin) **

https://www.iorad.com/player/1876803/Log-into-Sora?iframeHash=trysteps-1

Search for Books

Check out an E-Book or Audiobook

Return a Book

Place A Hold

Note: These instructions apply only to placing a hold on e-books and audiobooks within Sora. To find out how to place a hold on print books, please view these instructions.

Change the Reading Settings

Add a Bookmark

Define Words

Highlight Words

Take Notes

Lower Canada College Libraries

514-482-9916 ext. 473

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LCC is an English coeducational K-11 school leading to the MEES Secondary Leaving Diploma / LCC est une école anglophone mixte de la maternelle à la 5e secondaire menant au DES du MEES.