Possibility to loan, borrow and give books

Dear Logos,

owning a big library means that I can loan books to my friends and students. Sometimes they return back to me, sometimes not. Then I use to think that perhaps they need my books more than I do, and to be honest, I have more books in my library than I can read.

What if...

...it would be possible to loan books to friends? What if there would be user groups within Logos, just like in Facebook or Google+, that could share some of the resources.

When I give a book on a loan, that means that I'm not able to use that resource myself at that time. What if Logos would have same functionality - I could donate books, loan books to my friends, or even sell them inside the community? If there wouldn't be duplication, that wouldn't violate the copyright rules, right?

So... I ask you to give a thought to this suggestion. And now that we have the "pastor appreciation" month, I would like to donate him a book from my own library instead of giving him money...

Thanks!

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William

I would like to donate him a book from my own library instead of giving him money...

You can do that now......as many titles as you want for 20 dollars......Just call Logos and ask them to transfer them to his account.

Jack Caviness

So... I ask you to give a thought to this suggestion. And now that we have the "pastor appreciation" month, I would like to donate him a book from my own library instead of giving him money...

William was correct with one caveat: You cannot transfer a single book if it was originally part of a package/set.

Twelve years later, is this still a thing, the 'as many titles as you want for $20'? Or for less 😉
One might think that with the push to 'new technologies', it ought to be a simple coding change and thereafter an even simpler switch setting completely within the lender's app, the book stays in the lender's library but marked as unavailable, serving as a reminder of the outstanding resource.
Lending books to other Logos users might even encourage lendees to pick the book up for themselves or as a stimulus to browse Logos' library.

(Gifting a book, while avoiding the taboo of giving money as a gift, is nevertheless much simpler done by adding dollars to the receiver's Logos account.)

PS I would not 'take advantage' of Logos' new AI direction.

Donovan R. Palmer

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1344450#Comment_1344450

This makes me wonder what Logos’ publishers licensing requirements are. I read somewhere not long ago that there was some discontent in the secular publishing industry with the public library loaning platform called Libby. It made me wonder how publishers in the Christian space would approach this. We already see some resistance for some materials to be on the Logos platform due to publisher’s restrictions.