TeK5nology

Amazon says it will start allowing Kindle users to borrow books from more than 11,000 libraries across the country later this year.

I’ve spoken with avid e-readers over the years who say they specifically went with Barnes and Noble’s Nook or Sony’s Reader specifically because they could download books from libraries.

And librarians have expressed frustration at the Kindle, believing that Amazon’s decision not to support their widely used EPUB format was solely so they could sell their own books online.

But today Amazon said it’s working with OverDrive, a digital distributor that already hosts 500,000+ titles, according to its website, to create Kindle Library Lending, a new feature that will be available for all versions of the Kindle, including the reading apps, like those for smartphones.