An acquaintance of mine from Newsvine came up with this nifty service called Lendle for Kindle users. Add all the legal Kindle books you own to the website (apparently now you can sync) and then you can lend and borrow ebooks with other Lendle users. The service relies heavily on user participation and the publishers’ desire to borrow a book, so many books can only be lent once during a 14 day period, and some can’t at all.
I have lent three ebooks, bought three since joining, and borrowed two of which I just finished the first one – Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. Wow, did I misjudge this book!
It’s long. 800 pages + methinks. For the first couple dozen chapters I found myself wanting to choke the main character, Mr.Norrell, because he was just dull, and it was kind of the point. I kept expecting dragons or some twist that would just blow me away! Except this is the kind of book that hits you sideways, and with each nonsensical meaningless chapter, you start to realize that maybe they did have a meaning after all.