Philadelphia resident here: the Free Library of Philadelphia offers a non-resident library card for $50 a year. They have a pretty good ebook selection.

Brooklyn or Queens Public Library offer non-resident Ecards for $50 a year. I dunno how extensive Fairfax County's e-book library is but their membership is only $27 a year.

SF library is pretty great. Not sure the price for non residents but you get Hoopla, Overdrive, Libby, and Kanopy all included with membership.

Brooklyn no longer offers cards to out-of-state residents.

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Even my public library which isn't in a big city charges $50 a year for non-residents. So I think you should be thinking about in terms of at least $50 a year.

Then go pick some large city and sign up.

NYC Library offers a card to anyone that wants to borrow ebooks. I don’t have the info but you can get it online. It’s free.

I can't help but giggle at their acronym: FLoP

I pay for the county library next to my county, and it’s totally worth it. $40 a year — that’s two-three brand new books and it pays for itself.

Edit: Fulton County libraries in Atlanta. Sorry! Forgot to add this.

Does your library not have the hookup that allows you to check books out all over america?

No? All of our libraries in the state belong to the same consortium and share the same library of ebooks.

Very strange. Im sorry about your pickle 😔 best of luck looking for better books! Our library system works the same way (Michigan) but we can get ebooks from Libraries all across america as well

Have you considered places like gutenberg.org?

Hey, I used to live in ND!

Try Broward County in FL. 😊

Will do!

Hennepin County (Minneapolis, MN) has a non resident card for $60. It’s a very good library system with a breadth of digital offerings.

Hclib.org

Good to know, thanks!

I honestly didn't realize this was a thing. That you could pay to get access to other library cards. I guess it makes sense in a way though. I've moved around so much I've always made sure to get a new card and just kept a hold of it for online book access. I've been lucky in that regard

That's a good idea. I have never moved though. I like where I'm at.

I know it's not the same, and more money, but I would consider a Kindle Unlimited membership. Yeah, they don't have all of the best sellers, but I have been super happy with my membership and offerings while waiting for my library books to come available.

My husband was enlisted so it was a good opportunity for me to collect cards since I had the mail and addresses for them.

That’s going to have mostly public domain books. While that’s not a bad option for reading, especially if you prefer classics, OP will need a regular library for anything more recent

Another suggestion I’d make for free (and legal!) e-reading is NetGalley.com. You can get advanced reader copies of new books (audio and e-book) in exchange for leaving a review. You don’t have to have a huge social media following either — a lot of books are automatic approvals for download.

True, but it is immediately available, free, and if OP is not familiar with it, OP may want to give it a look. Only OP knows for sure.

Omaha, Nebraska is $75 a year for non residents but you can also pay a month at a time. They try hard to have a good digital selection.

Check to if you can get a library card from one of the CamelliaNet libraries. It’s a consortium of libraries in Alabama that share an eBook collection. My local library’s non-resident card is $20. https://camellia.overdrive.com/

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Ok sorry

Check out "libby". No fee, can get access to libraries all over the world