Contacts and Borrow Request

Putting together the suggestions for the "loaned" tag and the contacts/friends relationships, would there be room to take this one step further? I would love to use this as my own personal lending library between myself, friends and family. I could browse their collection, and, with appropriate permissions, request that I borrow a dvd/cd/game from them. If they accept, the item then has a "Loaned to Rick" in their inventory, and I have a "Borrowed from Jane" in my inventory.

I was thinking about this kind of thing as well, this would be a good addition.

I completely agree. I swap DVDs and CDs with my friends all the time. That would be excellent.

I starting to code this now :)

This sounds good and I'd love to be able to do this with friends and family. On a slightly less expansive note I don't know if it has also been mentioned in the forums but one things I'd really like is for a borrowed collection with the item had been borrowed by someone within Listal or without (e.g. a library - although I suppose a library could be set up as a contact). Basically I don't currently know what to do with books I've borrowed from the library and read, so I want to be able to record that, and rate/review etc. but these don't really fit in either the owned, or wanted collection. Is there a way of achieving this at the moment, do you have any plans in this area?

Also just want to echo the general well dones. This is a lovely app in both both concept and design

YES! I think this idea (and this one: www.listal.com/groups/viewthread/269/) is great. Can we please have a Borrow button?

Or, at the very least, a button that would initiate a new message to the friend, since the message system seems to work well enough.

Could even start with generic text:
"Hey, I'd like to borrow [insert item name]!"
with an auto-generated unique link inside that the friend could click to authorize it.

I think that would involve a lot more work than just a button e.g. indicating which items are available otherwise people might be annoyed with requests