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Originally Posted by shalym
Sorry...when I said "going to Amazon's site" I was just parroting what you said in your original quote. You don't actually have to go to Amazon's site to download the book any more than you have to go to Kobo's site to download the book. As far as I can tell, both work the same way. If someone with a Kindle tied to their Overdrive account borrows a book, the information is sent to Amazon, and the book is made available to the customer from their Amazon account. Isn't that how it works when someone with a Kobo tied to their Overdrive account borrows a book?
Shari
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Shari, did you read the quote from Overdrive that I quoted? The one that states to finish the book borrowing process, you need to go to Amazon's site?
To quote (again!):
After you borrow the title, select Read now with Kindle.
You'll be taken to Amazon's website to finish getting the ebook.
Note: You must complete this step for the book you borrowed to appear in the "Your Content and Devices" list in your Amazon account. If the book doesn't appear in this list, you won't be able to download it on any device.
I would suggest paying special attention to the portion that is bolded. The difference between Kobo and Amazon is that as soon as I borrow the book from the library web site, it will download on the next synchronization to my Overdrive supported Kobo ereader whereas if I do not go to the Amazon site to finish jumping through hoops, I will not be able to download/synchronize/WhisperSync/whatever the book to my Kindle ereader/app/whatever.
Perhaps I should not have used download as a generic term and instead used a construction intended to cover every possibility.