There are two ways you can lend a book to someone—offering to lend it on your own, because you think someone may want to read it, or by responding to a friend’s request to borrow a book. The following sections cover both scenarios.
Let’s say you’ve just read Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby for the first (or seventh) time and you have a friend who you know will enjoy the book. You’d like to recommend and lend the book to her.
There are three—count ’em, three—ways you can get to a screen that lets you lend a book to a NOOK Friend. Here’s how to get to the screen, and what to do once you get there:
Launch the NOOK Friends app (Getting Started with NOOK Friends) and tap the LendMe button. Then tap any book in the My Lendable Books section. A screen appears that lets you send an offer to lend the book via Contacts or Facebook. If you choose Contacts, a screen appears that lets you select your contact and type a message to her. The offer is sent via email. Your friend can then click a link in the email to accept or decline the offer.
If you choose Facebook, select the Facebook contact to whom you want to lend the book, and then type in a message. The message will be posted on your friend’s Facebook Wall, and Facebook will also send a notification to her via email about the offer to lend. She can click the message on her Wall to accept or decline the offer.
Tip
Someone doesn’t have to be a NOOK Friend in order for you to send her an invitation to borrow a book. However, if you want to send her an offer to borrow a book via email or Facebook, you must make sure that you can contact her on your NOOK. So before making an offer to lend her a book, put her in your Contacts list, (Importing Facebook Contacts) or make sure she’s a Facebook friend, and then link your NOOK account to Facebook (Linking Your NOOK Tablet to Facebook).
Whichever way you choose, your NOOK Friend is notified via email or Facebook and has seven days either to accept the offer or decline it.
In the Library, or if the book is on your Home Screen or Daily Shelf, hold your finger on a book and a pop-up menu appears. Select LendMe. The same screen appears as when you make an offer to lend a book from the NOOK Friends app.
Double-tap a book’s cover in the Library or on the Daily Shelf or Home Screen, and the details page opens. Tap LendMe. You see the now-familiar screen for lending a book via Contacts or Facebook.
As soon as you make the offer to lend the book, the Lent badge appears across the book cover wherever it appears on your NOOK Tablet. The badge appears even if your friend hasn’t yet accepted the offer, because you can’t rescind the offer. If your friend accepts the offer, a number appears next to the badge, to show how many days are left in the 14-day lending period. If your friend rejects it, the Lent label disappears and is replaced with the LendMe badge.
Making an offer to lend a book is only one way to let a friend borrow a book. Sometimes a friend will ask to borrow a book as well. How does he know what books you’ve got to borrow? As explained in Using LendMe, the NOOK Friends app shares a list of all the books you have available for lending to your friends (and vice versa).
You’ll find out when a friend has requested to borrow a book in any of three ways:
You get a notification in the Notification bar. Tap the Notification bar when you get the request, and you’ll see the note “Your friends would like to borrow a book.” Tap that notification, and you come to a screen that shows you who’s made the request and which book he wants to borrow.
The book shows up on the Requests shelf in the LendMe section of the NOOK Friends app. It’s the bottom shelf, so scroll down to get there. Tap the book and a screen appears with details about who’s made the request and which book he wants to borrow.
When you get to that screen, tap “Yes, Lend the Book” to lend it, “Decline” if you decide you don’t want to lend it (feeling selfish, are we?), and Cancel if you simply can’t make up your mind and need more time to decide.
You get an email with the request. The email shows you the book’s title and who has asked to borrow it. Tap Yes to agree to lend it; or No, Maybe Later to decline the offer for now.
