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Thanks Harry. I understand your position. Ethically I see little problem if you lend a kindle with restrictions enabled with only a single book loaded. As I understand it, parental access controls allow you to prevent downloading books from the cloud. I have not used it, so I will add the caveat that I am happy to be corrected if I'm wrong on this. There is certainly an option in parental restrictions to restrict cloud access. This would seem to be analogous with lending a physical book, with the exception that you could still read your own copy. If doing this violates your principles you would presumably refrain from doing so.
There may be a good case ethically for lending more than a single book, but the more books you lend the more the analogy is stretched, and personally I don't think it would take too many for it to become ethically problematic. Personally I don't think lending a 50,000 ebook library will usually be ethical, though it will of course become so if it is in accordance with Amazon's terms and conditions.
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