There are several discussions throughout the forums requesting NookFriends to hook up with. You can also go to facebook and find friends to share books with. I currently have several hundred friends now with a couple thousand books available to borrow. A good percentage of the books available for me to borrow are owned by more than one person. So even though I can borrow from one person, the book is still available from another person to loan out to someone else. No, can't usually lend or borrow the best sellers, but that's an issue with the publisher. Many of these same publishers are also refusing to sell ebooks to public libraries or putting such ridiculous restrictions on the ebooks that many public libraries simply can't afford them.
You CAN give a copy of ANY of your purchased ebooks to a friend or family member to sideload onto THEIR nook for use, but there's a catch. Your email and credit card number that is associated with the book has to be put into their nook before they can read it. This allows you to share your books with family members or friends that you trust. They can not share the book with anyone else without sharing YOUR information as it is needed to open and use the ebook. You can put the information on their nook yourself so you aren't actually giving that information to them. If you don't trust the person to not try to get the information for their own personal use or pass it around, you don't share the book. I use this technique with my daughter and it works great for us. We are both more likely to buy books knowing that both of us will get to read it, rather than deciding to NOT spend the money because only one of us will get to enjoy it. It works for us.
Sharing the books through the lend me program is fairly simple, just need both parties to agree to the loan, then the borrowing person is the only person who has access to the book until it is returned or the 14 days is up.
But don't blame BN on it, they don't have any say over it.
