Sorry I can't help about the Kindle. Our public library here also offers Hoopla, Overdrive, Cloud Library, and Zinio (magazines) & I read in bed on my smartphone, using the apps...

I also download books from Gutenberg.org to Google Drive and read them on my phone as well, and Gutenberg does offer Kindle downloads too.

I use calibre, which is free, to convert downloaded books to the format I need for my old kindle.

For print titles, open library and archive.org, for classics gutenberg.org. For popular recent titles on open library you often need overdrive.

If your library doesn't have things like overdrive, there are libraries that will let you sign up through them online.

Librivox has free audiobooks, but I generally find them rather irritating because the readers are all volunteers and they change every chapter. You can get used to anyone's idiosyncrasies, but it's harder when you have a new crop all the time. But they do have an excellent Belgian woman who reads many of the titles in French, and she does whole books.

I used to love audiobooks4free.com, which had some highly professional readers--better than the same books on audible.com, but the site seems to have disappeared, alas.

If you don't have an audible subscription, I would consider that. The only problem is that they kind of have you once you join, because if you let your subscription lapse you lose access to your library if you ever need a new download of one of your books, so be sure to get them all saved someplace.

I think I can always access my library with audible. I periodically cancel my membership as I can't use up one credit a month. I tend to get long books though.

Are you sure, Bumblebeez? I can access my library in itunes, but if I need a new download of anything from audible, that's not available when my subscription lapses. I do the annual one, so maybe it happens faster with that.

Thank you all for your input. I've never heard of calibre, but that sounds like the answer! For those who recommend Audible -is there an advantage of Scribd?

Audible has all the big best-sellers and it's all legit, which not everything on scribd is (although they do try to police it), if that matters.

Thank you -I'm going to look into it.

Thanks for the link, dedtired. I downloaded three books from that list.

dedtired, thanks so much for the link! I've already read "Still Waters" and highly recommend it.

Thanks Dedtired! Downloaded a few...

Thanks, dedtired. I claimed them all, not sure if I'll read every one. Most of them looked interesting.

You are all welcome!

I haven't tried Cloud on my kindle but do have the zinnio or it's now called RB digital(magazines) and get those through the library, also get books from Overdrive there. Read Cloud books on my tablet.

Writersblock I don't know. I went to my audible library and everything I have ever bought has already been downloaded and on my computer so perhaps that is the way it is. I am going to check my phone too , I only keep the ones I am currently listening to on the phone.

In addition to downloading books from my library, I have Kindle Unlimited. I think I pay $10/mo. For that, I can have 10 books downloaded at any one time. Unlike library books, the Kindle Unlimited books do not have a time limit on them.

I don't have a Kindle and never owned one. My digital books are through my library. They offer downloadable books (both read and audio) through the OverDrive program. It is my understanding that many, many public libraries offer this. Check into that. I have never had to purchase a book. I down load them thru my libraries "OverDrive" program absolutely free. Even the OverDrive app is free. It is worth checking into seeing if your library offers this avenue of digital books.

Yes, I do use Overdrive to download to my Kindle, but because I read so voraciously, I don't always find what I'm looking for there. Hoopla and Cloudlibrary expand the number of books I have access to -I just haven't been able to figure out how to read them on my Kindle. But I'm really excited to dive into Bumblebeez' suggestion of Calibre -that sounds like it might be just the ticket.

I used to have Kindle Unlimited but didn't feel it was as worthy as Scribd, and didn't want to pay for two subscriptions. I'm definitely going to look more into Audible though.

Thanks so much to everyone who weighed in!

Bestyears, Calibre is awesome. I have the oldest Kindle, yep, and use calibre to format almost everything free I downloaded.