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Originally Posted by iandix
I remember when only the nook had the book lending feature and Kindle owners use to always say .."Oh..that is useless and it's a gimmick we don't need or want that feature" but as soon as Amazon offered that feature .. it changed to ... "what a great thing Amazon has done" and all these websites started to offer a way to lend out books.
If Amazon made it easier for people to borrow books from the library, I bet they will be shouting it from roof tops..
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The problem with such wide sweeping generalizations, is that they are usually quite wrong.
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Originally Posted by ApK
I see no evidence around here that what you're saying is true.
The lending was a 'Meh' for most Kindle folks when B&N had it and it's a 'Meh' now that Kindle has it. It was simply one feature bullet that the nook had, and now they both have it. Give people a new feature, even a Meh one, and some folks will be happy to use it.
For library books, many people have been saying they wish Kindle had supported ADE library lending all along.
What's the big surprise there if they were to be happy if they got it?
I certainly would prefer it if it was a supported feature, despite the fact that easily doable as is.
ApK
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I agree with what Apk has said (despite the generalizations).
I don't know about "most" Kindle users, but both my husband and I actually took the lending thing into consideration when comparing the Kindle vs the Nook.
The library feature wouldn't really do us any good (at this time, anyway) as our local library does not support e-books. We would have to move one county over to take advantage of the option.