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Apr 20, 2011

E-Book Lending Comes to Kindle, Area Libraries

While 2010 seemed to be the year that you could hardly set foot on the Metro without bumping into someone entranced by their Kindle, the one big knock on Amazon’s popular e-reader was that it did not support any kind of e-book lending program, while the Nook and Sony’s e-reader did. That should change later this year. Amazon has announced that it has partnered with Overdrive to launch Kindle Library Lending at 11,000 libraries nationwide, including in the District.

 
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