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Originally Posted by cybmole
There's no way to get the loan onto K4PC , or into an app on a on Kindle tablet, and you have to go to amazon web site to return a book.
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You can only *borrow* a book from the KOLL with a true Kindle device. But once the book is borrowed, it can be retrieved from "cloud" with the Kindle app. I just downloaded this month's loaned book to my iPhone.
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
It's not. You have to go to the store and jump through hoops.
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I have never returned a book using the web site or the store view in the Kindle. I just ask to borrow a new book and them must return the one I had borrowed earlier. The fact that one can only borrow 1 book per calendar month and only during that month (and if you forget, you get fewer books per year) is much more of an inconvenience than the process of borrowing/returning.
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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
The overdrive app for my library allows me to borrow up to 20 digital items, for free. Max loan period of 3 weeks. I can return anytime I like and borrow more, as long as my title list is no bigger than 20. For free. If I didn't have the access to this, I'd consider Amazon.
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My library limits us to 3 loaned digital items -- 2 weeks for eBooks and 3 weeks for audio books. Default loan period for an eBook is 2 weeks, but I set my preference to only 1 week. Yes, I can return early, but even if I forget to return, I'm not holding an "in demand" book for too long.
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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
My impression from the rules is that the "Trial" is once. Once you do a free trial, you can't just cancel and then sign up for that again.
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I remember seeing a statement that the free trial is available only if you haven't already had a 30-day free trial.
I spent a lot of time on Saturday prowling through the KU titles. There are **plenty** there to keep me interested. However, I found that many of the books I'm interested in are available through
Freading's library program. Big disadvantage is that Freading only delivers ePub through ADE, so I can't read on the Kindle. Fortunately, like many MR members, I have more than one reader. If my library dropped their Freading option in favor of Overdrive, or if I just wanted to put all my reading onto my Kindle, then I might sign up for KU. For now, however, I'm going to just watch and see how things go with KU.