Kindle to have loan feature later this year...

[TravelingGal]

announced last week...I would love this as my friends are getting Kindles and we can finally share some books!

"Second, later this year, we will be introducing lending for Kindle, a new feature that lets you loan your Kindle books to other Kindle device or Kindle app users. Each book can be lent once for a loan period of 14-days and the lender cannot read the book during the loan period. Additionally, not all e-books will be lendable - this is solely up to the publisher or rights holder, who determines which titles are enabled for lending."

 

[Brown.Eyed.Girl]

 

[Haven]

When is my library going to get in on this? I want to borrow from THEM!

 

[Magenta]

Ooh, excellent! Hope it makes it worldwide, rather than just staying in the US, too.

 

[TravelingGal]

Haven, I really wish they'd get onboard with the library stuff. I'm getting poor from buying books!

This loan program probably will have all sorts of limitations, and some publishers may not allow it. But anything is better than we have now.

 

[kittybean]

This would be so neat! Not perfect, of course, but definitely an improvement.

Right now, I share all of my Kindle books with my mom. When I got her her Kindle, I connected it to my Amazon account, so she has access to all of the books I already have. When she purchases one, it'll be through my account, and we'll settle it financially later. At this point, though, it's going to be a looong time before she needs to buy any books since I already have about 60!

 

[April20]

This is awesome. This is exactly what I've been looking for since I got my Kindle. So exciting!

 

[Guilty Pleasure]

My mom's library loans out books for nook, but I don't think it works with kindle.

 

[starshine]

My mom's library loans out books for nook, but I don't think it works with kindle.

I haven't tried it yet, but there is a free program called Calibre http://calibre-ebook.com/ that can change EPUB and other formats to MOBI format, so it will work on the Kindle. Not sure sure what the limitations are...

Yea to book sharing coming to Kindle!