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Meh, I voted "It's only OK under specific circumstances (please specify)" just to see what the results were. Really, I don't see how loaning ebooks to a friend would work anyway, outside of the old Kindle 'share a book' thing I never used.
If you take a DRM-free ebook from Calibre, mail it to a friend who also uses Calibre and they import it to their library, isn't that just the same as piracy?
OTOH: I think the chances of this happening are so miniscule, it doesn't really matter anyway. The vast majority of ebook readers don't strip DRM or sideload. The chances of two people who are already acquainted both doing this, while not zero, are very, very slim.
On the third hand, I did recently mail my 75-year old mom an old Nook Glowlight 3. My mom and I have very little overlap, but I did leave some books on there. Gone With the Wind, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, some PD and the like, plus books I purchased, but for her (David Baldacci?).
My mom has never figured out how to do more with her cell phone than make a call and send broken, half complete texts. Creating a B&N account and showing her how to purchase books would give me an ulcer. What's on that Nook will be the only things ever on that Nook.
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