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Originally Posted by Soldim
I do not quite see why it would be illegal, or more difficult to handle than lending other material....
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If they
do have different collections it would be necessary to keep track of which books are loaded on what Kindle, store them securely and safely, retrieve the correct one from storage, make sure they work OK upon return... then there's service and maintenance, they need to be charged periodically (give the user a charger?), broken ones need to replaced, new books be added... I don't see why it couldn't work on a small scale, but it'd require somewhat more effort, I think.
And, yes, sometimes libraries do need to acquire lending rights in addition to just obtaining the actual books or media so there's all kind of legal issues I see, too; depending, of course, on your jurisdiction as usual. Does Amazon's license agreement allow for that? I don't think so, for what that's worth.