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Old 03-27-2019, 01:21 PM   #1
maximus83
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Working with renewed library books in Kindle

Has anyone run into this: you have ebooks borrowed from your library on Kindle, you renew/extend the loan (using an app like Libby or Overdrive), but then the local copies of the books expire on the original return date anyway, even though you renewed a couple of days early. This then requires you to delete the loaned book, and redownload it.

Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but seems not a very smooth process. Kind of disruptive and annoying. It seems odd that when you extend a loan period, they cannot just push a new token to your device and use it with the already downloaded copy of the book. Unless I'm missing something.

ETA: Haven't seen a solution to this yet, may ping Kindle service if I get time in the next couple days. One good news item is that notes you take on loaned books do stay in the Kindle 'notebook' in your account, and when you renew loan and re-download the book, Kindle is able to reassociate those notes with the book without losing a beat. The next question I'm wondering now is, what if I were to BUY one of these library books, same ISBN, would Amazon be able to correctly associate the notes with the owned copy? I'm going to cautiously expect yes.

Last edited by maximus83; 03-28-2019 at 01:01 PM.
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