I recently tried Amazon Prime, because with Prime you can check out Kindle eBooks from the  Kindle Owners Lending Library . It turns out, however, that I can check out only one book per month from the Lending Library. If you have a public library card, chances are you can check out Kindle eBooks from there. (If not, contact them and encourage them to start making Kindle books available. Here's how I check out Kindle books from my library.     Browsing Your Library's Kindle Book Offerings  My public library is a member of the Utah Pioneer Digital Library. I have  this page bookmarked  in my browser (shown below; to see an enlarged version of any image, please click on the image).           Utah Pioneer Digital Library Download Start Page     In the left-hand margin of the page shown above is a graphic link entitled "Now Available--Library eBooks for Kindle". You can click on that graphic to begin, but a better way to search is to click on the Advanced Search link near...