The film and TV selection appears to be fairly limited when compared to hoopla (in my local library’s case anyway), with just over 600 titles available. “ OverDriveNot to be confused with the movie of the same name starring Scott Eastwood, OverDrive, like hoopla, provides access to ebooks, audiobooks, comics, movies, TV shows and music, working with a network of 45,000 libraries and schools in 78 different countries. (But keep in mind that owing to the localized nature of libraries, the content available to you could be different.) Find out if your library supports hoopla here.

A quick perusal of the movies section indicates that Parasite director Bong Joon-ho’s modern classic The Host is available for borrow, as are four Star Trek movies, Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows, and approximately 9,000 other movie titles. On the downside, hoopla limits how many titles you can borrow per month (I appear to be capped at seven). You can also stream hoopla via Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, and Android TV. The service says it has “hundreds of thousands of titles to choose from, with more being added daily.” Titles can be streamed on desktop or via mobile app, and can also be downloaded to play offline. 11 Images hooplahoopla (with a small “h”!) is one of the more well-rounded digital media library services in that it offers not just free ebooks and audiobooks but also comics, movies, TV shows and music.

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