you may be facing two different situations once it you ation is where your have a kindle fire if you have a kindle fire you can do everything that i'm going to do on the laptop directly from your kindle fire  you do have one of the older versions of the candle you have to use your laptop or your personal computer at home or in the library for that matter to download the e book to do this green block labeled audio book and the book downloads so if you click on that it will take you to a page that displays the various audio books and e books that we have in our collection and what you want to do is scroll down once you're on that screen scroll down to the bottom and on the left hand side it's under collections and says view all ebooks if you like to click on view  so you can see all of the e books that we have available to you now if you look at the display de books you will notice that number one there are two different kinds of e books there are displayed on your screen one is the kindle that's the one you're interested in the other one is the adobe e pub ebook you don't want the adobe e pub ebook that will not work on the kindle so you're interested in a kindle book to the right of the kindle book there's either the phrase place a eat hold or add to the cart if it says place and eat hold as this does it means that someone else has that particular item checked out and you can't have it until it's returned by placing and the whole deal lask you for an email address so they can send you a message when the item has been returned so that you can go back in and check it out for yourself so we're looking in essence for a wanted has ad cart and let's go to the very end the last page i think there are some available there ok we'll go on previous  here we go if you are interested for example in checking out the super sad true love story you could click over here on add the cart to eat cart right beside kindle book and that will add it to your card as one of the items that you would like to check out now at this point you can continue browsing to check out additional items or you can proceed to check out once you proceeded to check out it asks for your library card number and allow me to type my library card number in there and sign in once you have signed then you have the choice of checking the item odd for seven days or fourteen days i will choose seven days and it also keeps track of the number of items that you have checked out from the library at this particular point in time i have four items checked out this will be the fifth item and i can check out a total of five items at any one time so after this i won't be able to check out any item until one of my items has been returned so i will not confirm the check out now the resulting display says first of all it gives the title of the book that i've checked out it's super sad true love story and then right below that there's a little button that says get for kindle when i click on get f candle i am transferred to the amazon web site and the amazon web site has a little button on the right hand side that says get library book so if i click on get library book amazon for my email address and for not my password i have to have an account with amazon in order to be able to complete the download one side enter my email address and my password i can handle it as i would any other download from amazon and that's all there is to it thank you very much