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BillG-
If you go today to your library web site and download an ebook it will be in either DRMed MOBI or DRMed PDF. To get the DRMed PDF onto your Kindle would require circumventing the DRM and reformatting it to MOBI.
If you download today a DRMed MOBI book from your library you will have to provide a PID. This is a unique alpha/numeric code that is assigned to your computer and reading devices. In order to optain this unique code you will to install MobiPocket Desktop Reader on your PC. This can only be done on Windows PCs. You can run the program on a Mac in a Windows emulator but that's not my area of expertise.
Once MobiPocket Desktop is installed you will be able to provide the library with your computer's PID and download the MOBI ebook. Your Kindle will have a completely different PID and can be obtained be either installing MobiDesktop 6.0 (later versions don't detect the Kindle) on a Windows XP PC (Vista doesn't seem to detect the Kindle) or finding the script and getting it to work.
*However* you are still free to download and put on your Kindle any book WITHOUT DRM. That means multiformat at Fictionwise, all of Baen's offerings, and many other sites that offer legal ebooks without DRM.
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