Comments on: Friends, Romans, Countrymen Lend Me Your Ebooks: Resources for Loaning & Borrowing Nook & Kindle Items

By: eBookFling Enters Scene as Ebook Lending Option | Product Sourcing - Industrial News

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:41:08 +0000

[...] lending (1 day, 1 month, or five people for instance). They either set lending on or off. Blogger Bobbi L. Newman, Librarian by Day, calculates that she has 125 items on her Kindle and, of those, she paid for 18 [...]

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By: Kindle & Nook Book Lending | pafa.net

Kindle & Nook Book Lending | pafa.net — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 21:41:06 +0000

[...] with the help of Bobbi Newman’s list of ebook loaning services as a starting place, I decided to check out some of the [...]

By: Bobbi Newman

Bobbi Newman — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:15:07 +0000

Great to see more options coming! I’ll keep an eye out!

By: Bobbi Newman

Bobbi Newman — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:14:36 +0000

That’ a better percentage but still not great. Thanks for doing the math and sharing!

By: Bobbi Newman

Bobbi Newman — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:44:02 +0000

Good point Barbara I did realize that but should have been clearer. You don’t have to have an ereader to buy or borrow Nook or Kindle books.

By: Booklends

Booklends — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:03:42 +0000

We’re creating a similar website, Booklends, that will make it easy for Kindle and Nook users to borrow and loan books to one another. Visit http://www.booklends.com to sign up for our mailing list, and we’ll let you know when our site is finished (probably within a week or so)

By: Barbara Henry

Barbara Henry — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:13:07 +0000

You don’t need to own a nook or kindle device to lend and borrow–use it on any device including nook for PC and Kindle for PC. Unfortunately, there are more borrowers than loaners. I have used both the Kindle club and the bookfriend.me. Borrowed the “Finkler Question” for the PC for Kindle and loaned out 3 nook books. Each service worked well although the bookfriend.me process could be explained a bit better in the FAQs. The publishers, of course, do not allow lending on a lot of the good stuff as they want you to buy it. One nook book I have was a LendMe book when I bought it, but now it is no longer a LendMe book. So I guess publishers can take away the right to lend if and when they want to. Also, Pandigital Novel readers can lend and borrow with the nook because they both use the Barnes & Noble bookstore.

By: Janelle Mercer

Janelle Mercer — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:36:26 +0000

I always find numbers like this interesting. I have a Nook.

I have only had my Nook a little over a month so my numbers aren’t so great.

I have 58 Items on my Nook.
22 of these items are books
30 are sample books (I mostly have sample cookbooks. I wanted to look at them before I bought any. I haven’t bought any as of yet. I usually download a sample of a regular book before I buy it, too. )
6 are magazines

Most of my books (not counting samples) are fiction. I have 2 nonfiction books.

I paid for 6 of these 22 items.
8 out of my 22 items are lendable, 36.36%