> I've long joked I wish there was a storage company devoted to personal libraries, a "Rent-a-Library". I've long had a similar thought, though not as user-fri

> I've long joked I wish there was a storage company devoted to personal libraries, a "Rent-a-Library". I've long had a similar thought, though not as user-friendly as yours, just the book storage part, not the reading room part. Some combination of LibraryThing, storage boxes, storage units, and shipping companies, managed to make book storage, retrieval, and sharing, convenient and reliable for its users. I think the only novel thought that I've had on the topic would be that the charge for not returning a book that was shared with you would be some base processing fee (say $5) in addition to the cost of repurchasing the book.