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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
I've used Amazon's version of this a few times to lend books to my sister, and it is actually brilliant - easier than stripping drm or even e-mailing a book.
You go to your "manage my kindle" page on Amazon, find the book, and there's a dropdown menu where you can choose "Lend this book". You then enter the e-mail address of the borrower and you're done.
Amazon sends her an e-mail with a link; she has 7 days to click on the link, and then 14 days to read the book. I can't access the book while she has it.
Advantages of this system over conventional lending are:
(1) distance doesn't matter - my sister lives 4 hours away and so we wouldn't be trading books normally.
(2) you don't have to actually have the book with you to lend it - she texted me today at work asking whether I had another book in a series I had lent her, and I could just go to my computer and let her have it.
(3) you get the book back.
Disadvantages are:
(1) Many books can't be lent (this is set by the publisher).
(2) You can only lend a book once (since I rarely lend a book at all, this isn't a big deal, but if you wanted to give a book to 10 different people, YMMV).
It is really a very slick system, particularly for people who have friends/family in other cities.
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Family members and close friends with Nooks can exchange credit card numbers and can email book files to each other, This beats lendme hands down.