Thread: Overdrive book only available as browser read
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Old 01-18-2022, 04:57 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by willaful View Post
I checked out a library book yesterday and then discovered it was only available as an "overdrive" loan and could only be read in the browser. (Or possibly also on my phone, I didn't think to check before I returned it.) On twitter, a few confirmed that this has happened to them.

Anyone know anything about this? I can really only read comfortably with e-ink, so I'm concerned it's some horrible new direction Overdrive is taking.
This is just a guess on my part, but are your settings for “Kindle only”? Could the book be available as an ePub?
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