[socalgail]

Thanks to everyone who posted a suggestion. I have contacted the library and they say they have a solution in the works. I will post it here when I find out what it is on Tues 4/4/17.

I like the Kindle e-Ink readers because the text is sharp and clear and the battery needs infrequent charging. The data storage capacity is also very good.

The reason I mentioned it in Calibre section is that it does file format conversions unless the file is DRM protected. But I posed the idea of retaining the DRM but switching to a new underlying format. Perhaps that is rather naive and clueless on my part.

The point about some publishers not being happy about lending eBooks strikes me as odd because libraries have been lending hard copy books for centuries and this did not seem to make publishers shy away. Also, I am not too clear on what privacy concerns would be raised by librarians for the use of eBooks but I would like to learn more. Privacy seems like a quaint notion now. Corporations have all our metadata. They are the real "Big Brother" now.
I think Gertrude Stein was way ahead of her time if she thought she got too much information all day long in 1946!

Please leave my post here for now. If the library gives me a solution, I will post it here and also in the General Discussion area.