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WITH YOUR NOOK TABLET,
you can borrow books from friends and lend them
books, and also borrow books from your local library. In fact, in some ways
it’s even easier to share books with the NOOK Tablet than with printed books,
because you don’t need to physically hand off or collect a book. All it takes is a
few taps on your NOOK Tablet.
But how to do it? Which books can and can’t you lend? How long can you bor-
row and lend them for? Read on; this chapter has all you need to know.
Both a Borrower and a Lender Be
You have two ways to lend and borrow books with your NOOK Tablet: Using
the NOOK Tablet’s LendMe features to borrow and lend books with your NOOK
Friends, or borrowing books from the library.
Keep in mind that you can’t lend out every book you own, or borrow every book
your friends own. The same holds true with library books: You can borrow books
that the library assigns for borrowing.
Borrowing and lending may strike you as an odd concept when it comes to
NOOK books, because there’s no physical object to hand over or take in. In fact,
though, an eBook is a physical object of sorts, even though it’s made up of bits
and bytes rather than paper and print.
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Borrowing and
Lending Books with
LendMe and Your
Local Library