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Originally Posted by bhartman36
The lending mechanism, introduced first by Nook and then Kindle, is an attempt to find a middle ground, but the current restrictions on it (one lend per book, two weeks duration) are too restrictive. If the user could set the duration of the lend (or make it indefinite) and could lend a book as many times as they wanted, I think that would go a long way towards removing the most onerous restrictions on e-books.
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Kobo is implementing the one lend to rule them all plan as well. It would be interesting if we could chain lend books, lend your book to someone who can read it in its entirety and then lend it out to someone else, or decide that they don't enjoy it halfway through and then still lend it to someone else.
I suppose if the original lender wants the book back they could put a hold on the book and send a little popup message to the reader who is currently reading it, alerting them that the original lender would like their book back for a bit to read again. That sounds like a library inside of an ereader inside of a ebook.