Feature Request - Ability to 'request to loan book' that is listed as "Owned" by "Friends"

1) When there is a match between a particular book in "My Wanted" and "Owned" by your friends, send me a message in the Inbox and RSS feed to alert me
2) Have a button to allow me to "request to loan book" from the friend, the action will send a message to the friend's Inbox with a template message to loan the book

Advantages:
- Cost savings for existing users - why buy or borrow from library when your friends own the book?
- Automate the loan process
- this feature will existing users to encourage their friends to join bookjetty so that they have a larger database of books to borrow from.

It's a very practial suggestion bphuan. Book loan request have been popped up by other members previously as well.

I'll take note of that. Thanks.

I like this idea too. Maybe each user can have the option to indicate whether his/her books are for loan at all, and which ones.

Looking forward to this.

Ah, and speaking of loans, how does one ensure that "friends" who loan books do return the books (especially without chasing them)?

Maybe need deposit, reminder and fines features too. And BookJetty can take a commission. This would save everyone from quibbles and heartaches.

clappingtree, deposit and fines feature I guess it's a bit overstretched for BookJetty.

The book loan feature is probably through a simpler integration for notification and request and indicator to set if your book is already on loaned and who is holding it now.

Agree. Those are "nice to have" and not "must have" features.

Glad to know that there'll be notification, request and loan indicator features. :-)