But only if publishers are happy to allow it.
One of the common criticisms of e-books is that you can't lend them to friends like you would a paperback. However, that's changing.
Amazon has revealed plans to introduce 'lending for Kindle', which will allow its customers to lend their e-books to other Kindle device or Kindle app users.
"Each book can be lent once for a loan period of 14-days and the lender cannot read the book during the loan period," explains Amazon in a posting on its official forums.
"Additionally, not all e-books will be lendable - this is solely up to the publisher or rights holder, who determines which titles are enabled for lending."
The big question is how many publishers will be game for the idea, and whether they will want to levy a fee for the feature.
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The feature will be introduced later this year. In the same post, Amazon has revealed that it will soon make newspapers and magazines readable in its Kindle apps, as well as on its Kindle devices.
"In the coming weeks, many newspapers and magazines will be available on our Kindle apps for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, and then we'll be adding this functionality to Kindle for Android and our other apps down the road."
