Some Kindle e-books have an option to loan your copy of an e-book to someone else for up to 14 days. Use this method to share a book with a family member who doesn’t live with you or with a friend.
Setting Up a Family Library
After you set up your Family Library, you and the other adult in your home can do much more than just access the Kindle e-books, apps, and audio books purchased on the account from the Cloud or Archived Items tab on your Kindle devices and reading apps. Each member of the family has a saved furthest read location, annotations and more. Some special features are only available for the adult family members. If you don’t see the shared content, go to the Family Library Settings on your device to enable them. Older Kindle devices and apps don’t support Family Sharing, so check to see if your Kindle supports this feature or not.
Lending E-Books to Friends
If you plan to loan an e-book to a friend, first make sure the title is lendable. Not all e-books have this option enabled. To see if a title is lendable, go to its Product Information page and scroll to the bottom of the Product Details section. It will either say “Lending: Enabled” or “Lending: Disabled,” or if there is no information about lending, the book isn’t lendable. Keep in mind that publishers can enable and disable lending at any time.
Lending E-Books
Enter your friend’s personal email address in the Recipient E-Mail Address field and type your name in the From field. Do not use your friend’s Send to My Kindle email address; it won’t work. You can include your friend’s name and a short message, but these aren’t required. Click the Send Now button. When your friend clicks the Get Your Loaned Book Now button, which is included in the email, the button links to a Web page where the next step is to click Accept Loaned Book. An invitation appears for your friend to send the title to a Kindle device or the free Kindle PC or mobile app. Unlike a paper book, you can only lend an e-book once. However, just like a paper book, you won’t have access to your e-book while your friend is using it. In 14 days, the title is automatically returned to you – no hints, no phone calls, no badgering, no embittered friendships and no lost books!
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