[SensualPoet]

Exactly, fjtorres. Amazon has been working in the background trying to figure out how to participate in library lending AND improve the customer experience. This arrangement does exactly that.

For ePubs, you need to download an ASCM file, open that in Adobe Digital Editions Reader, plug in your ereader, and transfer that to the device.

For Kindle library books, you can sit on the beach, click on the library link from your Kindle, and it magically arrives on your device.

A reminder that the public library does NOTHING except create your library account based on your local residency rules and gives you a password. When you log in to the local library collection, your library is passing through your valid credentials and ALL transactions -- the catalog you see, the shelf, the holds, the cart -- it's all Overdrive. Your library has no ebooks on any server -- they all reside at Overdrive. Even the email notice that a title is ready ... that is sent by Overdrive provided you have supplied an email address for these alerts. The library merely selects the ebooks it wants to license, and the number of copies, and pays for the service ... and pays for you to use it.

If the fees increase to the local library, they can cut back on licenses, allow wait times to increase, or shuffle funds from underused library programs to those which actually serve its local rate payers. If that happens to be you reading library books, bravo! You are getting your taxpayer dollars worth.