<p>This blog lists at least one book deal a day, that will generally work on any Kindle, not just the fire.</p>
<p>[Kindle</a> Fire Department](<a href=“http://fireapps.blogspot.com/]Kindle”>http://fireapps.blogspot.com/)</p>
<p>Prices are set by the publisher.</p>
<p>I could be mistaken, but I thought that Nook users could “share” books among themselves. For example, if D bought an e-book, I could “borrow” it from her (if I had a Nook, that is)…</p>
<p>^Kindle users can also lend books, well for a 2 week time period to other Kindles not on your account. And for users on same account, (we have 3 Kindles one one account) we all have access to every book bought on that account. </p>
<p>And as others have mentioned, many libraries now lend e-books. We borrow books for our kindles frequently.</p>
<p>Mamom, how do we accomplish the 2 week loan to another Kindle? My book group mate has the book on her Kindle Fire and would like to loan it to me on my Kindle 2. (I started another thread on how to do this - thanks for any and all help.)</p>
<p>Hugcheck - here is the link to the directions for loaning books
[Amazon.com</a> Help: Lending Kindle Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_ksupportfaq_lending?nodeId=200549320]Amazon.com”>http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_ksupportfaq_lending?nodeId=200549320)</p>
<p>Thank you Mamom. Only lendable once? Sheesh. Well, I’ll be buying real loanable giveable books except when traveling. I love sending a great book out into the world and imagining it read over and over again by various friends. I love sitting in one of my lady groups and leafing through the stack of stories various people bring from their current libraries. I love sending out my old reads and bringing in the ones my friends recommend. I love chatting with my friends about the books we have read in common, often from sharing. Also, I’ll often buy a book at Costco etc. knowing that it’ll spark conversation as we all share and then discuss. Often someone will buy another copy just to read along…so much for that with the ebooks!</p>
<p>Anti-trust officials in both Europe and the US have opened investigations into price-fixing of e-books by major publishers, and Apple. There are many articles about this if you search around, such as this one:</p>
<p>[U.S</a>., European antitrust regulators look at e-books | Reuters](<a href=“http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/07/us-ebooks-antitrust-idUSTRE7B62BX20111207]U.S”>http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/07/us-ebooks-antitrust-idUSTRE7B62BX20111207)</p>
<p>I get notification daily about FREE Kindle books. Yes some are garbage but many are actually fun. Also, anyone with a Kindle…sign up for the Kindle Daily Deal (on the Amazon site in your account). These are typically less than $2 and usually are current release books. For Nook users, you can go into a BN store every Friday and get a freebie. </p>
<p>I love my IPad Kindle app. When I travelled, I had over 30 books with me from which to choose…a lot easier to carry the IPad/Kindle than even a couple of books in my bag.</p>
<p>I download free from my library. 1000’s of books to choose from and I don’t care if I’m not reading a book as soon as it comes out and hits BSL.</p>
<p>Not all books are lendable on kindle. If you read the instructions, linked above, it tells you how to tell which books have lending enabled.</p>
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<p>Still a pain. I love going into a library and just wandering the shelves until I have a whole arm load of books that intrigue me – maybe that book off the to be shelved shelf, one from the new book rack, maybe something on home construction, maybe a new cookbook. I don’t know what I want until I see it.</p>
<p>I checked the e-lending on our local library and there are not that many books available and most of them have huge waiting lists. Maybe it will be awhile before that becomes a viable option. </p>
<p>There are also free and low priced books at KOBO and Project gutenberg.</p>
<p>I have a good friend who borrows books from her library for her Kindle. She says there is always a waiting list but she has never waited longer than a week for a book. I’ve waited longer than that for real books to be returned to my library.</p>
<p>I think many of us who are not authors have no idea of the grief in getting books published.</p>
<p>I love my iPad Kindle app for taking books on trips, but did realize that I was buying “junk” books that I would have resold if they had been physical. Needed to slow down for that indulgence!</p>
<p>I have the same gripe about how expensive the books are. My D is dyslexic/language disabled. Hearing a book in addition to seeing the text greatly helps with her comprehension. The Kindle has sometimes been good for some books when she can’t get them via RFBD. My additional gripe on Kindle is that some of the authors/publishers (don’t know which) set them so that audio is not allowed. Why would they do that?</p>
<p>I needed a reference book. The ebook price was triple the paperback. Thank goodness I still remember how to use a book!</p>
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<p>This is not true. Libraries do have current and mainstream books. This site will help search for what’s available at your local library: [OverDrive</a> – Global distributor of digital eBooks, audiobooks, music & video for library, school & retail](<a href=“http://www.overdrive.com/]OverDrive”>http://www.overdrive.com/) There are also libraries like this one - [FLP</a> - Get a Library Card](<a href=“http://libwww.freelibrary.org/register/getcard1.cfm]FLP”>Get a Library Card) where you can get a library card on-line and receive a physical card and then download away. I agree about long holds, but I find that’s not a big deal because I always have another book to read anyway. More and more libraries are getting on the e-book bandwagon every day and as they do, the selection and amount of books available will increase.</p>
<p>I’ve had my nook color for over a year now and have read close to 100 books on it. I haven’t paid for any of them. I get them from libraries – I have 5 library cards (I meet the requirements for all of them). I love my nook. I’m a huge reader and have rarely ever bought books. It would just cost to much to keep up with my habit!</p>
<p>Oh, and many, if not most, are new releases. You just have to be a little patient with the waiting lists, but like someone else said, the wait is no longer than waiting for a new book in book form.</p>
<p>i have an amazon account and the ipad and iphone kindle app. i can share the account with up to 4? maybe 5 devices…so my son and i can both read the same books for one price…and there is always the lending thing you can do with kindle…30 days, isn’t it?</p>
<p>i buy new releases all the time–the ebook prices are cheaper than the hard cover books. i can’t make a clean break, though. i still love books. </p>
<p>the ipad/iphone app is great for traveling…and i believe there is another app that coordinates your bookmarks which i must research–i read on the ipad and iphone–</p>
<p>I, for one, would generally rather read a book on the Kindle rather than the real book. I get nothing out having to hold a physically bigger and heavier book made of paper with inconsistently inked pages, sometimes pages printed too close to the binding so you have to fight with the book to read that edge of the page (I hate that), and that take up space. </p>
<p>I really don’t mind paying a reasonable price for a book since I think the authors need to earn an income as do the publishing people and everyone else in the line but still see no justification for an ebook to ever cost as much as a paper version short of a fire sale to get rid of books they printed too many of but even then the ebook costs less to produce when including the cost of components and transportation and physical storefront.</p>