How to share your Kindle books with your friends
Q: How do I share a Kindle book once I am done reading it? - Angela from North Fort Myers, Florida
A: There are so many reasons to love a Kindle. It's light, portable and you can store a zillion books on it. Not too mention it saves untold number of trees every year by skipping the whole printing on paper process. The Kindle pretty much rivals traditional printed books in every way.
Well, almost every way.
With a traditional book you can easily pass it along to your friends when you're done reading it. And they can pass it along to their friends and so on and so on. But I'm guessing most of you Kindle owners out there wouldn't be too keen on the idea of passing your Kindle along to your friends.
Luckily, Amazon provides a means for lending (some of your) Kindle books without having to hand over your Kindle to your friends. It's not available for every Kindle book and the loan period is only 14 days but the process works when it can.
You can find the full set of instructions for lending a Kindle book on Amazon's web site.
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5 comments for this blog post so far...
March 22, 2011 at 5:05 am
lynn cook
i highly recommend this i do it all the time, it;s a great way tho share books and you don’t have to spend a fortune buying them
March 22, 2011 at 8:51 am
simone
Do a google search for skindle and you can share as many for as long as you like
March 22, 2011 at 9:20 am
Riva
One thing to keep in mind, you can lend a Kindle book (or a Nook book, for that matter) only one time and only to one person. Once you’ve loaned it out, you can never loan that book again.
March 22, 2011 at 9:22 am
lynn
Or ... Have all your friends, family members, or book club members “Register” their Kindles to one account at Amazon. Then you all own the same books. Up to 6 people can be reading a book at the same time ... it says so in Amazon’s Q&A;. Manage all your FREE books on someone’s computer in Calibre, and periodically make CDs for all members.
April 24, 2012 at 2:27 am
wing
But, not all the books are loanable… I purchased some books, but none of them can be loaned. At least I don’t see this option on the product page.
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