Amazon does not devote any marketing power to let customers know they can borrow ebooks from the library, but the entire experience is not as intuitive as Kobo. The two sides signed a contract almost 7 years ago and it keeps getting renewed. Rakuten owns both companies, so if you are looking for an intuitive library experience, Kobo is the best.Īll of the modern Kindle e-readers in the United States can borrow ebooks from Overdrive. Kobo is the only company to have this type of system right on their e-readers. When you are finished reading, you can send it back to the library, or it will automatically leave your device at the end of the loan period. When you find a title you want to borrow, you can deliver it right to your e-reader and it is placed in your main library menu. You can go to the settings menu and enter your library card number and then browse your local branches collection of ebooks. The Kobo Forma, Kobo Clara HD and Kobo Aura Edition 2 all have Overdrive functionality baked right into the e-reader. There are a number of e-readers that have functionality to deliver ebooks right from the library and read them and today we look at the best ones. Overdrive stated that they power 95% of all libraries and there are a number of smaller companies that are involved in this field as well, such as Hoopla and Bibliotheca. In Canada and the United States the vast majority of public libraries have an ebook collection.
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