I looked at the top Google link for each of the three mentioned states' homebound library services. None of them are "if you can't come to us, we'll bring the books to you."
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Tulsa offers
books by mail for the blind, or sending books to a branch office for someone to pick up. There is no "bring/send books to your home if you can't leave your house."
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New Braunfels offers to bring books to you,
one day a month--"Tell us your reading preferences and we'll select up to four books especially for you." You don't get to choose the books--and you get up to four per month.
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The city of Billings has
homebound library services--for Senior Citizens who either live in a nursing home/senior center, or are entirely homebound. Nothing for younger people with disabilities.
The big cities on the coasts aren't much better. (South San Francisco brings books to people every *three* weeks.) After a bit of poking around, I feel confident in saying that more than 80% of US citizens live outside the range of a homebound library program that brings the books they want to read within a week. My city doesn't offer any deliveries, just the option to authorize one or two people to pick up books for you, and place extra holds on books.