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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Virtually all Pennsylvania public libraries participate in the Access Pennsylvania program. These libraries issue cards to anyone who presents a home library card with an Access Pennsylvania sticker.
Most of these libraries will grant Overdrive eBook privileges to non-home patrons. But some only allow the away patrons to borrow physical materials. While this information isn't recent, in my experience neither the Delaware County nor the Bethlehem Area cards, for non-local patrons, work on their Overdrive collections.
While Overdrive collections are county-wide or regional, Axis360 collections are (except for Bucks County) tied to individual libraries. I suspect that those collections are mostly unavailable to out of area patrons; I can't use Horsham's Axis360 despite being in the same county.
Philadelphia's Overdrive collection has about half the title count of Allegheny County/Pittsburgh. I was on a business trip out there last month and got their card.
Third best after Allegheny and Philadelphia might be Bucks County, which offers both Overdrive and Axis360.
I personally find great differences between the collections. Take my recently expired Lackawanna County card. While I don't recommend that collection, I noticed it to include right wing political titles seen no where else. Adams and Westmorland Counties must be different as well, as they have the only two 3M collections in my state. But I don't have their cards.
Do I have time to read after getting all these cards? Yes, and more than we used to, when my wife and I had to physically visit unique libraries every time we wanted to borrow something different!
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I can at least confirm that Montgomery County's card works for non-local patrons on Overdrive, and they have a solid collection.