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Originally Posted by JSWolf
That and the fact that Overdrive does not support the Kindle in Canada.
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Have you looked into the reasons that Overdrive does not support the Kindle in Canada?
The local library consortium had two major reasons for not adding Kindle support and that was, simply enough, money and privacy. The cost of the Overdrive and Adobe infrastructure was high enough. Adding Kindle support was not in the budget. As for the privacy issue, at that time, an attempt to borrow a Kindle format ebook resulted in the patron being redirected to Amazon during the process. Hmmm... an outside company now has access to identify library patrons and track their borrowing habits.
This may have changed since I have not used a library that has Kindle titles to lend but among the staff members of local libraries is a FOI/Privacy officer (FOI refers to a provincial statute entitle Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act). Basically, their job is to decide if the person/agency making the request can provide evidence that they have a valid subpoena, warrant or other court order compelling the library to disclose the personal information before disclosing any information that the patron has not consented to having disclosed.