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Originally Posted by janrey
This is why I have been getting most of the books I am reading from the library. There are a few authors who aren't in my library that I do purchase but basically no I don't buy them unless they are cheap. There are many good authors whose books are below $10 but generally the mass market, top 10 list books are $12.99 and higher. This is not so bad when you buy the physical book because you can lend it and even resell it to a used book store but you can't even lend most ebooks. If they allowed the lending option that would be great. I realize that ebooks never fall apart, but they could limit it to say 3 -5 loans. Amazon has some they limit to one loan.
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The lending option for Kindle books is controlled by the publisher. Loaning a device is the best way to mimic loaning a paper book. I know some folks who buy the lowest cost Kindle and loan it when they want to loan a book to a friend.
I rarely loaned my print books, because when I did, I got them back dogeared or worse.
I have 3 family members (who share some of my reading interests) with devices registered to my Amazon account. They have access to any book on my account.