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Hopefully this isn't a surprise, but there's one out there: http://www.kindlelendingclub.com/ http://www.kindlelendingclub.com/ Though I do like your name bett

by tghw 16y ago

Hopefully this isn't a surprise, but there's one out there: http://www.kindlelendingclub.com/ http://www.kindlelendingclub.com/ Though I do like your name better.

bhousel 16y ago
Haha, yeah it's not a surprise.. I didn't know they were creating their own site - I thought they wanted to just keep it as Facebook group. But by the time they launched, I was well into it, so I decided that I may as well finish what I started.
- tghw 16y ago
  > so I decided that I may as well finish what I started. I like the spirit. I'll keep an eye on booklends. Hopefully it will be fewer romance novels and more good books.
  - bhousel 16y ago
    Thanks! I'm going to try to just support all the books that are lendable. But to your point - I've found that there is a surprising amount of romance/erotica novels on Amazon Kindle. I have my crawlers doing common searches, and it turns out that a large number (more than I'd expect anyway) of the books on there are of the shirtless-dude-on-the-cover type.
    - jdminhbg 16y ago
      With a Kindle, nobody else on the bus knows what you're reading...
- icarus_drowning 16y ago
  If you can make your site intelligent enough to stop sending me "you have a lending request" emails for books that I've already lent, I'll switch! ;)
  - Catherine__ 16y ago
    Catherine here from KindleLendingClub.com - You've put your finger on one of the pain points for our users :) A challenge of developing a community platform around Kindle lending is that there is no straightforward way for us to hook into Amazon's Kindle lending system to determine whether a loan did or did not actually occur. We're trying to work around this by asking lenders to "confirm" the loan at the time they do it, but it's a necessarily imperfect workaround that we're refining in our next iteration. If for some reason a lender doesn't click to confirm the loan, the lender's book loan offer remains live and triggers reminders when there are other borrowers for the title. To stop lending request reminders for a particular title, you can delete the loan offer from your profile: http://www.kindlelendingclub.com/myprofile.htm http://www.kindlelendingclub.com/myprofile.htm If you need help or have feedback, we're just an email away: info@kindlelendingclub.com
sjs382 16y ago
theres also http://lendle.me http://lendle.me

by tghw 16y ago

Hopefully this isn't a surprise, but there's one out there: http://www.kindlelendingclub.com/ http://www.kindlelendingclub.com/ Though I do like your name better.

bhousel 16y ago

Haha, yeah it's not a surprise.. I didn't know they were creating their own site - I thought they wanted to just keep it as Facebook group. But by the time they launched, I was well into it, so I decided that I may as well finish what I started.

tghw 16y ago
> so I decided that I may as well finish what I started. I like the spirit. I'll keep an eye on booklends. Hopefully it will be fewer romance novels and more good books.
- bhousel 16y ago
  Thanks! I'm going to try to just support all the books that are lendable. But to your point - I've found that there is a surprising amount of romance/erotica novels on Amazon Kindle. I have my crawlers doing common searches, and it turns out that a large number (more than I'd expect anyway) of the books on there are of the shirtless-dude-on-the-cover type.
  - jdminhbg 16y ago
    With a Kindle, nobody else on the bus knows what you're reading...
icarus_drowning 16y ago
If you can make your site intelligent enough to stop sending me "you have a lending request" emails for books that I've already lent, I'll switch! ;)
- Catherine__ 16y ago
  Catherine here from KindleLendingClub.com - You've put your finger on one of the pain points for our users :) A challenge of developing a community platform around Kindle lending is that there is no straightforward way for us to hook into Amazon's Kindle lending system to determine whether a loan did or did not actually occur. We're trying to work around this by asking lenders to "confirm" the loan at the time they do it, but it's a necessarily imperfect workaround that we're refining in our next iteration. If for some reason a lender doesn't click to confirm the loan, the lender's book loan offer remains live and triggers reminders when there are other borrowers for the title. To stop lending request reminders for a particular title, you can delete the loan offer from your profile: http://www.kindlelendingclub.com/myprofile.htm http://www.kindlelendingclub.com/myprofile.htm If you need help or have feedback, we're just an email away: info@kindlelendingclub.com

sjs382 16y ago

theres also http://lendle.me http://lendle.me