Has anyone tried loaning books to others on kindle? Does it work?
Has anyone tried loaning books to others on kindle? Does it work?
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Has anyone tried loaning books to others on kindle? Does it work?
You can only do it with *some* Kindle books. The publisher and author have to give permission, I find that most of my books are not lendable.
Me too
I have done it, it’s easy although there aren’t that many books that you can loan
I can’t seem to do it.
you have to go into manage content on Amazon and then you have to find one that is actually loanable
I don’t have the “manage content” option.
If you go to your digital orders, there is a link to go to content and devices in each order.
You can loan some of them but you can only loan that certain book one time. Once you have loaned it to somebody that’s it
You can still loan it to a different person when it’s returned.
I was so excited when I first got my Kindle because of this selling feature. Imagine the disappointment when I found out it takes a miracle to actually share. ?
You can choose one person to share your library with – and they’ll share theirs with you.
your whole library? I didn’t know this. I’ll have to explore this further.
My husband and I share our books.
@Katherine My sister and I do this. It is great.
I had no idea either. Ty!
I have shared a few books with a friend. I believe it gets sent to their email as a link of some sort. No one has returned the favor so I don’t know for sure how it looks.
I’ve done it! You can lend certain books. It will tell you when you click on actions for that particular book. The loan is for 2 weeks then it automatically comes back to you.
I’ve tried doing that but none of them have the loan option.
@Shareen aw, sorry. A lot of the more popular books are not lendable. ?
@Linda that’s a shame. Thanks anyway ?
I just give my friend my user name and password and she logs in from her iPad kindle app and reads my books.
You can create a “household” on Amazon and add people to your household. I added my aunt and now she has access to all my books.\
@Randi ty!!! In all these years i never realized this.
This is a great question. Also, What about if you want to give your Kindle fire away? I was thinking of getting a new one and giving my sister my old one.
Your books will still stay in your cloud. I had a Kobo first and gave it to my Mama. All the books that are downloaded to the device will stay on it.
So when i give mine to her, does she just reset up a profile
So when she buys books from her account to goes to that fire?
If she sets up her account, your books will probably disappear. Since they were your purchases.
@Linda that is perfectly fine. She has an account, so she can google how too, or i can help her. *I think, not sure because i am so bad with tech stuff. That my kindle is just set up for me with my account. So if i just give my kindle to her as it is set up right now. She will not be able to do much of anyting on/with it.