The Kindle e-reader enables you have an entire bookshelf of books in the device and also enable you to share any book with your friends too. You now do not have to let go off your electronic device to help a friend read a book from that device.
You can loan out your Kindle books using the internet which allows your friend to go through all the book names in your device on their device. Though not all books can be loaned out through the Kindle e-reader, those books that are available to be loaned can be shared for a stretch of 14 days free of charge. Post these 14 days, books are automatically returned back to the owner and you need not track your book back on your device.
Check your bookshelf.
To find out if the book in your device can be given to others or not, you can check your personal virtual bookshelf Amazon’s website and going to the Manage Your Kindle page within the Orders section. If you have the option of lending a particular book, you will see a small caption “Loan This Title option” under the Actions drop down menu to the far right of the book’s name.
From this website, you can also access the same options from the book’s product page. Books in your device that can be lent will show a on the screen top which contains the date when the book was bought along with a link where you can go ahead with the lending procedure.
How-to guides, news, etc from the book’s product page will help you to in many ways using the technology.
If you have a lot of book friends and are passionate about lending books, you can check if the book can be lent or not before purchasing the book on Amazon. If that book can be shared, it will have Lending: Enabled listed among the Product Details below the book’s Language and ASIN number information.
How to pass on the ebooks:
Now that you know that your book can be lent, click on the option “Loan This Title” which will bring up a form on the screen where you will have to fill up with the borrower’s information like their name, email id, any other personal message, etc.
Once this done, the borrower will receive an email letting them know that the book has been lent to them. They will get up to 7 days to accept which is done by clicking the link within the email, and an additional 14 days to complete reading and sending it back to the owner. When the borrower accepts the book, it is saved in the recipient’s Amazon account from where the book can be accessed with a Kindle, computer or any other device that runs the Kindle application.
Just like lending out a normal book, the Kindle ebook is also not available for you to read once it is lent out. The title shows up as “unavailable” until the borrower gives it back to you or till the expiry of the loan period.
If you do not find anything interesting on your friend’s Kindle device, there are many other public libraries that lend you the book of your choice and are likely to have a much broader collection as well. Amazon also offers a number of free titles to download and read; besides Amazon Prime members can borrow one title from Amazon’s lending library per month for no additional charge.