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How do I Loan Electronic Books?

There are a few ways to share ebooks depending on your ereader and where you get your ebooks from. If you buy from a small publisher, you can simply email the ebook file to loan it out. Two of the top ereaders, Barnes and Noble's Nook and Amazon's Kindle, have different ways to loan books. The Kindle will not let you loan out a book unless you share an account. The Nook lets you loan out an ebook one time using the LendMe service.

Things You'll Need

  • Ebook for Nook or Kindle
  • Nook or Kindle
  • Computer with Internet
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Instructions

  1. Loaning an Ebook on the Nook

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      Buy a book for the Nook that you can loan. About fifty percent of Nook ebooks can be loaned.

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      Go to your Nook library. Choose the book you want to loan.

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      Select "Lend" from the menu and choose a contact. You can also add a contact.

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      Submit the book loan. Your contact will now have access to the book for 14 days. If the contact does not read the book, it will be sent back to you and you will be able to loan it to someone else. If the contact does read the ebook, you cannot loan it again.

    Loaning Ebooks on Kindle

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      Go to Amazon's Kindle page. Select "Manage Your Kindle" from the options at the top of the page.

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      Sign in using your account's login and password.

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      Select "Register a New Kindle." Make sure that the Kindle you add has been unregistered before you share your account. Register the Kindle.

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      Download ebooks that have been purchased or buy new ones. Be aware that if you share Kindle registration, all books bought by you and the person with the other Kindle will be charged to the same credit card.

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