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Originally Posted by kennyc
And books are available to lend through existing channels - public libraries.
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Not all public libraries participate in ebook lending. Even if all of them did offer, the Kindle is not able to access public library books without resorting to illegal methods. So, that's a no go.
Lendle only allowed you to loan books that were lendable and the books came from Amazon. The publishers have a choice to enable/disable the feature for their books. A lot of them made books not lendable which is their right. The way that Lendle was set up there wasn't a way to contact each other offline. You only saw one e-mail address at a time and that was for a specific book to loan so e-mail address harvesting would have took up a lot of time. Clearly, the people suggesting illegal downloads were the key to this site have never used it. If a person was going to resort to illegal downloads -- Lendle wasn't the easiest or smartest place to do it and would've been a huge waste of time given that the most popular books were 9/10 times not lendable.
Amazon is just being a pain that's all. They can do whatever they want but honestly why enable a feature on your device if you don't want people to use it. It'd be best for Amazon to pull the feature all together instead of pretending. I love my Kindle but I'm so glad I have a nook to balance the nonsense surrounding ebook lending all out. I can borrow a book from the public library or loan/borrow a lendable book with whomever I want as long as it's within the one-time restriction.