Amazon Kindle eBook eLoaning Possible Now with Some Restrictions

It took a long time (over a decade by my reckoning) but ebooks finally arrived in a big way in 2010. The 3rd generation Kindle (and its lower price), the iPad, and Amazon’s ecommerce infrastructure provided, I believe, the basis for everything coming together this year. Ebooks provide a number of advantages over paperbooks. But, there are still a number of advantages old fashioned dead tree technology has over ebooks. One advantage over the Kindle, until this week, has been the ease of loaning a book to someone.