Can someone please tell me how to borrow ebooks from the library?
I received a kindle paperwhite from my darling husband for Christmas. Can someone please tell me how to borrow ebooks from the library?
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How wonderful! I love my paperwhite. Visit your library website on you computer. Find their Overdrive collection (might need to look for wording like ebooks) which you’ll need to log into with your library card number. Look for a book to “borrow”. Then go to your “loans” to download as a kindle title. This will push you over to the Amazon website where you will click on “get library book”. After that you should be able to sync your kindle and see the book.
Great instructions!
If your Library uses Overdrive’s Library to Go: link to Library to Go, log in with your library card & PIN, check out a book, when you choose to download the Kindle version, you will be taken to http://amazon.com/ Click on “get library book” located where “add to cart” usually is located. Your book will be sent to your Kindle as if you bought it.
Thank you both so much!!!
I think the Libby ap can also send ebooks to your kindle.
Actually Libby is an updated version of overdrive and is terrific. My library helped me to update and it’s really great.
@Geeti I’m brand new to it but I love it.
@Rachel me too! I’m trying my husband to update his overdrive to Libby but he is resistant to any kind of change ?
I love having a library app named after me lol
You will probably need a PIN or password attached to your library card record first if not already there. Helps if you’re in America as other countries’ libraries haven’t got an agreement with Kindle.
Ask your librarian! They are eager to help you get started. In addition, my library has classes soon after the holidays to go over how to use your new e-reader with the library system. Check to see if yours does, too. But, first, go to your library and ask for help.
Librarians are my super heroes!
Ask your librarian. Different libraries use different apps. Plus they can tell you the password.
you need a library card and an app called overdrive.
I use an app called Libby for library. Is easier than overdrive for me.
OverDrive is the way I’ve done it in the past, using your local library.
I use the app Libby, easy to set up and use.
you may need to go to the library and have them set it up and then it is super easy. I couldn’t use my library card number. I had to have a overdrive password and pin.
The process is going to depend on your local library. You’ll need to go there and ask.
You can go to your library and they will walk you through the process. I know because I work in a library
The instructions from Rhonda Kristoff are perfect, and I’d like to add that if you use Overdrive, and you need to put a book on hold – which is, basically, getting in line to borrow the book – – let’s say that you put 5 books on hold, but you sure don’t want all 5 becoming available at the same time – when one comes available to you, then “suspend hold” (or words to this effect) on the others. You will still make progress up the line until you get into the first slot, and then the people behind you will move ahead of you, one at a time, until you unsuspend the hold. Then, you will rejoin the line and get the book.
When you click on each of your books which are on hold, on the library’s overdrive page, you can see your place in line. You can then decide which book to next “unsuspend.”
I hope that I explained this in an understandable way. It is a life changer, lemme tell you. Until I discovered this, I was a very unhappy person who had waited three months for my turn with a book only to then not have time to read it because of having a glut of books come available, all at once.
Take it with you to the library, they should be able to walk you through it
Libby or Overdrive to check out books, then use your Amazon account to send the library books over to your Kindle.