Thread: Paucity of OverDrive books?
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Old 07-06-2020, 03:27 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Friedrich View Post
A draw with the Kobos is the integrated OverDrive support (although I understand I can use OverDrive with Kindles here in the US). However, my enthusiasm has been dampened by looking through the eBook offerings of my local library system and finding ... not much. About 4,000 books total and, after filtering out the categories I'm not interested in (Romance, Mysteries, Juvenile Fiction, ...), there isn't a whole lot left.

Is this typical? Or is my county library system behind the times? Are there other library systems that one can tap into with OverDrive? Or should I ignore OverDrive and stick to the Kobo store, Project Gutenberg, etc.?

I apologize in advance for what might be a naive question. I've never dealt with online lending before. Or "modern" eReaders.
If you're in California, both the SF and LA public libraries have enormous Overdrive collections with great variety and most anything vaguely recent of any literary or non-fiction note. I read lots of books through those libraries. I don't know if you can apply for a card online right now or not, though.
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