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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Caveat: I don't use Overdrive at all.
But from what I've seen, on a Kobo, Overdrive is integrated into the reader, so you can get a borrowed book directly on the device without need of visiting a website. It is as easy as getting a book from the Kobo store.
A Kobo/Overdrive user can correct me if I am wrong.
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I understand all this...I was addressing this part of what DNSB said:
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Canadian librarians do not have much liking for having the customer have to head over to Amazon's site to download the ebooks and the cost is much higher per borrow. Ask your local library's privacy officer about the privacy issues -- they don't like handing any information about patrons over without a court order.
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I was pointing out that when someone borrows a book from Overdrive in Canada on their Kobo, the book does not come from the library site, but from the Kobo website. Therefore, it's no different from the way that Amazon does it, in terms of privacy.
It's actually almost worse in terms of privacy, since the parent company of Kobo also owns Overdrive, so any person that uses Overdrive anywhere has the potential to have their information handed over to Rakuten (Kobo's parent company).
Note that I'm not saying that this is happening, but it has the potential to happen, and is just as likely to be happening as the possibility that Amazon is mining the information about library users in the US who read Overdrive books on their Kindles.
Shari