Lendle would like to borrow one of your books…

(See update below.)

Last week, we posted an article about books being deleted from Amazon’s system.

We’ve collected a few examples and, as you can see, the Amazon links for these books lead to “product not found” pages. 

Water for Elephants ASIN: B004PYDO64

Another (lendable) edition of this book is still available.

Veiled Freedom ASIN: B002IUZM1C

Another (lendable) edition of this book is still available. It’s free, though, so we won’t be surprised if it eventually suffers the same fate.

Fixing Freddie ASIN: B003YL4IGY

No edition of this book is currently available in Amazon’s Kindle store.

The issue, of course, is that these books don’t seem to be lendable, even though those who bought them paid for a lending-enabled edition. As far as we can tell, the first two have been replaced by newer editions, whereas Fixing Freddie isn’t even available as a Kindle book, at this point.

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Guide: How to lend a book

From time to time, we see an email from someone who is stymied by the lend process. We’ve done everything we can to make lending as easy as possible on Lendle, but there are some steps that you must take to ensure that a lend is completed, so we thought we’d take some screenshots of the entire process:

STEP 1

This is the book detail page for Water for Elephants. We don’t own Water for Elephants, so we’re going to buy it. Clicking BUY will open a new window or tab at which point you can purchase the book from Amazon’s Kindle store. (Those of you who are not Patrons won’t see the BOOK IT button. Patrons can reserve a copy of any lendable book.)

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