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11.09.09

Don’t believe the hype about lending ebooks on the Barnes & Noble nook News, commentary | (1)
If you've read reviews about the nook, the new Kindle competitor from Barnes & Noble, you may have heard that you can lend ebooks to friends. But don't get suckered in by this claim. Barnes & Noble is conveniently leaving out some crucial information about how the process works, and it turns out the "loan your book" feature is a lot less useful than most bloggers and journalists are making it sound. So how does the lending feature work? Barnes & Noble doesn't provide a lot of detail on it--the Nook promo page on barnesandnoble.com simply says the device "lets you ...

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