Physical media is also more flexible - you can lend it to a friend, or sell it on.

I lent it to a friend of mine, and the next day she claimed it disappeared.

Her partner reads the magazine, too, and sometimes she lends a copy to a friend.

Unless she lent her car to a friend or hasn't noticed it's gone missing yet.

He lent the only copy to a friend, and it was burned by mistake.

How will you lend a book to a friend?

As to the other suggestion in you r letter, I make it a firm rule never to lend money to a friend.

I lent the book to a friend, not caring if it was returned.

Did she ever lend them to a friend, for instance?

I lent a large sum, a few months ago, to a friend, but the knave has run away and left me in the lurch.