I have now written a hardly any articles on the B&N Nook (see my rudimentary impressions and content article 1 and article 2) and continue to test out and discover how capable this ebook reader is. Navigation put upon the body the device takes a mouthful of practice, but with the amazing content and eInk flourish I am able to have fruition of the best interpretation actual observation of any ebook reader I have tried and grant that you are all about the reading then you should be happy with the nook. One of the unique features of the nook compared to any other ebook reader is the capability to loan books to friends, well-nigh like you can with a real book. There are limitations put on from the publishers, but the process is fairly straight at the fore part. The LendMe capability is in beta and support for more titles is still being rolled out in the Barnes & Noble library. Take a see at my image art museum for shots of the process in receiving loaned books and for loaning books to others.
Image Gallery:A walk through receiving a loaned work and loaning a volume out on the retired place using the LendMe technology. 
LendMe service; capabilities and limitations
The basics of the LendMe service is that you can loan supported books ONE time to ONE character for a period up to 14 days. You be able to loan multiple books to the same someone, but each supported book is only able to be lent uncovered by you formerly. I understand this is a limitation placed on the books by means of publishers, but at least it is a step in the right direction and maybe we will see this limitation change in the future.
The books are available to the person who received the loaned book for free on the side of up to 14 days and can be returned by the reader earlier if they finish in just a not many days or something. To be clear, the owner cannot then lend that book out again to someone else, EVER.
Receiving a loan
A member of the Barnes & Noble PR team loaned me an ebook and a notification bubble appeared in the lower left of my nook display. I then went to My Library and saw that there was every offer to accept serving-boy (see the screenshot in my image gallery). You afterwards use the touch color display to choose Yes, borrow this or No, thank you. If you turn down the loan then the book rights are returned to the owner and they be able to read the book or try lending it out to someone else. The lend offer is valid for 7 days so the person can decide suppose that they want to read it or not. If 7 days goes by without a response, then the rights are returned to the lender.
After you accept the offer, then the word Download appears on your bottom color display in such a manner you can add it to your manoeuvre. You will on that account see the book in your library by the words From a friend on the model of the book title. The number of remaining days of the loan also appears so you know how long you have left to read the book.
You be able to return the book previous to the 14 day period expires, but popularly only through the Barnes & Noble website and not from the nook.
Loaning a book to a friend
I made a comment in my first impressions article that I didn’t know what the Contacts utility was for and at that time I forgot about the LendMe technology. You obviously need Contacts so you can give books to people. Here are the steps to lend out books:
Buy a lendable book. At this time about 50% of the B&N library is legally qualified for LendMe. As you can see in my image gallery, when accessing the B&N website an icon will appear close to the book title that informs you if LendMe is supported or not in the same manner if this is something you want to try and use then pay attention when you buy books forward the website. This remark upon does not yet appear on the store front onward the nook itself.
Choose that book title in your library
Select the option to Lend in the menu (shown in my image gallery)
Add a contact or select an existing one. Name and email address are all that is required.
Type a note for your contact, optional
Submit and confirm the lend
That’s it and after the person accepts the loan offer you will see the words On loan be open in your library list of books. You will not be able to read the book until it comes off bestow. If you loan a book to someone and they even now have the title in their own library, then you power of choosing embrace a message that the book has not been lent to prevent duplication and prevent you from using your one time loan to someone who already owns the title.
Now, keep in be obedient to your friend doesn’confidentially need a retired place to derive and read the loaned book. They can use the nook, a compatible ebook reader, or a B&N eReader-enabled device (PC, Mac, BlackBerry, and iPhone at this time). I am not sure exactly what that “compatible ebook reader” means, but am afflicting to find out from my PR contact.
Also, once a lending offer has been sent, it cannot be retracted so make sure you want to lend your book that one allotted period to the designated contact. You also cannot lend a volume that has been loaned to you.
What do I think of LendMe?
It was quite easy to lend books and received loaned books and 14 days seems to be a reasonable amount of time to read through a book, which is much like what our local library does for loaning books. I would like a way to extend that if you are part way through the book, but at another time again their business representation is to have you at least start a book and if you like it then you determine buy it too.
I am finding one MAJOR issue with this so far and that is when I go back to the loaned book from another book I get put back to the front cover and when I select Go to furthest know fully it doesn’t be off anywhere. I have learned to read to a chapter end and then jump to that chapter start when I go in the rear in, end this is unacceptable concerning each ebook reader and is a bug that necessarily to be worked out. When I go back into other books in my library, the nook properly goes to my most distant read point.
This is the first ebook service to support this capability and at this while it is unique. The LendMe service is currently in beta testing and is working quite well. There can be improvements made in a couple notifications and dexterity to see which books are lendable in a straight course from the treasury on the nook.
I imagine there will be sites appearing to facilitate book lending too for a like reason that you may be able to find books you want to receive by way of lend from a central repository while posting what books you have available to lend.
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