Borrowing Kindle ebooks - from your library
April 26th 2011 01:02
On the 20th April, Amazon announced a new format: Kindle Library Lending. It will be launched later this year and will allow Kindle customers to borrow Kindle books from over 11,000 libraries in the United States. [Which probably means we New Zealanders won't be able to borrow.]
Kindle Library Lending will be available for all generations of Kindle devices and free Kindle reading apps.
"We're excited that millions of Kindle customers will be able to borrow Kindle books from their local libraries," said Jay Marine, Director, Amazon Kindle.
Customers will be able to check out a Kindle book from their local library and, just as with the normal approach to Kindle, start reading on any Kindle device or free Kindle app for Android, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, or Windows Phone. And readers will be able to annotate the library copy just as if it was their own.
If a Kindle book is checked out again or that book is purchased from Amazon, all of a customer's annotations and bookmarks will be preserved.
"We're doing a little something extra here," Marine says. "Normally, making margin notes in library books is a big no-no. [It may be a no-no, but an awful lot of people do it. ] But we're extending our Whispersync technology so that you can highlight and add margin notes to Kindle books you check out from your local library.
"Your notes will not show up when the next patron checks out the book. But if you check out the book again, or subsequently buy it, your notes will be there just as you left them, perfectly Whispersynced."
Now that's quite an impressive little piece of technological thinking.
Kindle Library Lending will be available for all generations of Kindle devices and free Kindle reading apps.
"We're excited that millions of Kindle customers will be able to borrow Kindle books from their local libraries," said Jay Marine, Director, Amazon Kindle.
Customers will be able to check out a Kindle book from their local library and, just as with the normal approach to Kindle, start reading on any Kindle device or free Kindle app for Android, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, or Windows Phone. And readers will be able to annotate the library copy just as if it was their own.
If a Kindle book is checked out again or that book is purchased from Amazon, all of a customer's annotations and bookmarks will be preserved.
"We're doing a little something extra here," Marine says. "Normally, making margin notes in library books is a big no-no. [It may be a no-no, but an awful lot of people do it. ] But we're extending our Whispersync technology so that you can highlight and add margin notes to Kindle books you check out from your local library.
"Your notes will not show up when the next patron checks out the book. But if you check out the book again, or subsequently buy it, your notes will be there just as you left them, perfectly Whispersynced."
Now that's quite an impressive little piece of technological thinking.
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