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You may be confusing the Overdrive library ebook subscription service with Overdrive Media Console which is free software provided to download audio ebooks.
It's very confusing. Most of the U.S. libraries that offer ebooks use either the Overdrive subscription service or Netlibrary subscription service. Netlibrary does not support ereading devices although they have announced (about a year ago) that they would support Sony devices - so far my libraries that use Netlibrary know nothing about it.
Ebooks that the library can get from the Overdrive service include Epub, PDF and mobipocket formats. Each library makes their own choice of how many of each format they carry. You are correct in that all pdf and epub ebooks supplied by Overdrive automatically get loaded into Adobe Digital Editions (ADE). Mobipocket ebooks can be downloaded directly to your PC, but you must first have supplied the library with a PID for where it will be used...either your PC or your ereading device.
That is why many folks who want to use library ebooks and do not have an ereader that is directly compatible with ADE have found other methods of altering the drm scenario used.
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