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Originally Posted by bozza111
How does overdrive work? Europeans don't have overdrive libraries. The only places that have overdrive are restricted access like an american school or embassy.
If you are a member of an overdrive library can you borrow any book for free? Is there one big overdrive library, or does every overdrive library have its own collection of books?
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Overdrive's the distributor and is not directly consumer facing. A library purchases books through Overdrive, and the related ecosystem - so each library has their own collection which does vary from another's. As a library patron, you would get the book for free (assuming your access to the library is free).
There are some public libraries in Europe that work with Overdrive, but not sure what they are and how widespread it is. Maybe check:
https://www.overdrive.com/libraries
Note that the Kindle support mentioned in the thread is only available to US libraries (I'm not sure if there's any other stuff restricted to the US).
There are several other library distributors that work in this type of fashion - but I'm not sure what/who they are for all of Europe (or even country specific).