Available titles may change each calendar month. You can deliver the book to compatible devices registered to your Amazon account. Much has been said about the battle between publishers and libraries. "Prime members and adults in the same Amazon Household can borrow one book from the Kindle Owners' Lending Library each calendar month. So I guess I shouldn't have been surprised when it was also complicated to figure out how to use the Kindle Owner's Lending Library benefit through Amazon Prime. It takes some mental and technical gymnastics. We love our Kindles in our household, but have noticed Amazon doesn't exactly make it easy to locate free books in their library. The Kindle Lending library, which debuted in late 2011, didnt cause quite the stir that Kindle Unlimited has, because of an initially small selection of e-books and a lack of competitors. However, one benefit gave me more heartburn than anything else. Streaming music and videos without commercials - what's not to like? So I pulled the trigger for the free shipping and was pleased with some of the other benefits. We had items we needed quickly for a birthday and the expedited shipping would have been almost the cost of an Amazon Prime membership. Well, recently Amazon finally lassoed me. I've signed up for free trials in the past, but always cancelled during the trial period because I knew, once I started using it long term, I'd most likely be hooked to the tune of $99/year. They gladly fork over $79 (now $99) a year for free 2-day shipping and a wagonload of other benefits. Kindle Owners Lending Library: Get Free Books, Movies and TV Shows with your Kindle and Prime Membership (Kindle Owners Lending Library & Prime) Kindle Edition. Restricted the number of related genres displayed on book details pages.Everyone I know who has Amazon Prime loves it. The data prior to this date has now been restored, though if this causes any performance issues, it may well be trimmed again in the future.Ĭode has been added to allow Patrons to change the lendable status of books on the book detail page.Īlso added a button on the final lending page for "The book is not lendable" as a reason for being unable to complete a lend, which sets the book to non-lendable.Īnd if a Lendler hits this button, other attempted lends of the same book will show that the book is no longer lendable and show an appropriate message. Some older timeline data was pruned a few years ago, so we only showed data since 1st Jan 2016. Removed some social media widgets that were downloading waaaay too much code. Since you have a Kindle, you can download. More tweaking will be done later.Ĭhanged the endless scrolling of some pages as it was triggering too early. While browsing, youll notice that we have eBooks available in Kindle Book, Adobe. Made display of ads more consistent but more tweaking may be done.Ĭhanged the displaying of some adverts. Improved scrolling of timelines, with minor layout changes.įixed bug where a new comment to a group message looked like it was added by the message author instead of the signed-in user. Increased expiry time of verification link.įurther internal security fixes that may cause inconsistent behavior with some browser plugins.Īdded verification of emails on registration.įixed bug where borrowing status was not being updated when it should be.Īllow all users to mark books as lendable on the book detail page.Ĭompleted borrowing requests can now be permanently hidden to tidy up request lists.įixed bug where if a lend request was cancelled, it couldn't be requested again.įixed issue with FaceBook not liking the new default URL. Batman - Detective Comics: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition - Book 1 (Detective Comics (2016-)) (English Edition) eBook : Tynion, James, Orlando, Steve, Bennett, Marguerite. Made error message for late verification of email on signup to be more helpful. Lots of internal changes that should change nothing, but may break some things. Lots more internal changes that should change nothing, but may break some things. Improved the import-by-asin tool to add missing books later.Īdded a tool to bulk-add books from Kindle Library data dump (in testing). Search results now show books in the order of relevance to the search term. Made tweaks to caching of timeline itemsto improve efficiency.įixed bug on establishing whether a user can borrow books or not. Amazon explains the Kindle Lending Library program in more detail on their. More tweaks to caching of timeline items.Īlso, display the page before loading the timelines. Even those who prefer print books have found that ebooks offer a safer and. If you experience any unexpected behavior, or any obvious bugs, please do contact us. Any updates and changes made to Lendle will be shown here.
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