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Originally Posted by giedre
After reading all the posts on this thread, I still don't understand how this is all that different from lending pbooks to others?
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The salient differences are:
1) Kindle/nook lending-- you can lend a book once. Paper book lending -- you can lend a book as many times as you like.
2) Kindle/nook lending -- loans are restricted to people participating in that ebook platform (kindle or nook). Paper book lending-- you can lend to anyone who is interested.
3) Kindle/nook lending -- loans take place over the Internet. Paper book lending -- loans take place in person or through the mail/package delivery. (note that the international network of strangers is more or less the same for paper and kindle/nook-- i.e. paperbackswap and the like).
4) Kindle/nook lending -- loans are for a 2-week period at which point your book is automatically returned. Paper book lending -- loans are for indefinite periods and you may or may not ever get your book back.
Kindle/nook lending is also sometimes subject to bugs and loan failure whereas if a paper book loan fails, it's because the book is destroyed or lost in the mail.