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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
I don't know of any US libraries that allow out of country borrowing.
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The library has no idea where in the world my Kindle Keyboard is when I borrow a book.
As for the OP question -- I think the answer is yes, but I don't recommend it.
To borrow a Kindle format book with DRM -- and almost all popular library books have DRM -- you need to visit two web sites:
1. A localized Overdrive.com, such as
https://brooklyn.overdrive.com/
2.
www.amazon.com
Using my Kindle Keyboard, I can get to both. Therefore, with great patience, and some difficulty, I can borrow a book using WiFi -- or even just the local cell phone network -- in most of the world, using the device alone. I did it once or twice.
As for the PaperWhite, overdrive.com is blocked when you are connected over a cell phone network. But with WiFi, I think you should be able to do it.
However, regardless of what eInk Kindle model one has, it is far easier to do from a PC due to a combination of eInk browser limitations, and the demise of mobilizing web sites that once made that browser bearable. (Bearable to me -- most here always disliked it.)
P.S. I wonder, though, what happens when your Kindle is registered to
www.amazon.ca. A Canadian, with an American library card, would need to tell us if that is a problem. If might be necessary to have the Kindle registered on the American Amazon portal. If amazon.ca is a problem, though, I don't think it would matter where the Canadian is, in the world, at the moment.