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bhartman36 · 10-23-2009, 02:53 AM

Two things about the lending that I think needs to be emphasized:

1) Publishers can turn this capability off (like the text-to-speech in the Kindle 2 and Kindle DX).

2) You can only lend a book out once, for 14 days. Once you lend a book out, you cannot lend it again. It's a one time thing.

That first restriction has the potential to make the lending feature all but useless, if publishers decide to take a hard line to it.

Here's a thread from the Barnes & Noble Nook forum.

10-23-2009, 02:53 AM	#53
bhartman36 Wizard Posts: 1,323 Karma: 1515835 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: New Jersey, USA Device: Kobo Libra Colour, Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition (2021)	Two things about the lending that I think needs to be emphasized: 1) Publishers can turn this capability off (like the text-to-speech in the Kindle 2 and Kindle DX). 2) You can only lend a book out once, for 14 days. Once you lend a book out, you cannot lend it again. It's a one time thing. That first restriction has the potential to make the lending feature all but useless, if publishers decide to take a hard line to it. Here's a thread from the Barnes & Noble Nook forum.