4.0 / 5 - 359 Votes

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Developer: OverDrive

Editors Review:

I absolutely love Libby. It has a great selection of books, that I can easily access. Since it connects to your library card, it works just like a public library. I love how all the books are free, since with your library card, you are borrowing the book. You can also renew the book you are reading, and have multiple books at once. I have never used overdrive, or other reading apps, other than a few books on kindle, but this is my favorite by far. I love how it accesses to your library card, so you do not have to pay for these books. Also, how you can chose how long you are borrowing a book. I am a slow reader, so I like how I can borrow a book for 21 days, whereas someone may only want one for 7 days. Also how the app automatically returns your book if you do not finish in the time you have to read it. I have an Audio book app, which is great, but does not have nearly the book selection as Libby. There are many features that help the experience become amazing, and currently, I spend more of my time on Libby than on my other apps. I have heard other apps that are great, but I have not gotten them, since I love Libby, and love how it connects to my library card at my branch, and lets me borrow books for free. I must say that this is my first review, so I may not of covered many things, but I have nothing but positive to say about Libby, I just needed to share what I think about Libby.

After using OverDrive, I decided to try out Libby since the app looked so much more upgraded, if that's the right word. The interface is absolutely beautiful; borrowing books from the library is easy; and I love how my bookshelf looks more than I liked the one from OverDrive. I only have a couple of suggestions, however. 1) When I'm reading from the iBooks app, one feature I really like about it is the gray scale it uses, along with the day scale, sepia scale, and night mode. It would be absolutely awesome if Libby used this gray scale as well! And 2) I'm not sure if this was just a bug, but once when Libby froze, I had to force quit the app and re-launch it. However, I had to go through the entire "Welcome to Libby, please sign in" screen. For awhile it wasn't letting me sign in with my library card number until I had to start the app over again. It's just a tiny, minor thing, and it might have been just a bug, but I thought it was a bit odd. Nonetheless, I still think this app is awesome, and I'm so glad I downloaded it! You guys have done a fantastic job at designing this app, and it's helped me get back into reading again! So thanks! :)

This is basically the same app as Overdrive, just prettier. One thing I love about this app that Overdrive doesn't do though, is that it lists all your loans on one page. I live in the Los Angeles area and actually have four library cards from surrounding library systems, so it's great to be able to view all those loans in one place. Which brings me to the thing that irritates me about both this app and the Overdrive one. And maybe it's just a technical issue, but I hate that neither app has a universal search function. You have to switch libraries every time you want to search for something at multiple systems. I'd love just one consolidated search that searches all the libraries that I have cards for. I realize most people probably won't have as many cards as I do, but it's seriously irritating to have to search multiple times for a book, and then if it's in multiple places, to remember which one had a shorter wait time, etc. If it was just one single search list, it'd make my life so much easier. And considering that they seem to understand that people might have multiple cards, since they included a combined bookshelf, it just seems like an odd omission to not have a combined search function.

Publisher Description:

From OverDrive: Meet Libby. Discover ebooks and audiobooks from your local library. Brought to you by OverDrive Labs. Did you know your local library has thousands of ebooks and audiobooks? You can borrow them, instantly, for free, using just the device in your hand. 1. Fish out your library card2. Open the Libby app3. Find your local library4. Search, sample, borrow, enjoyIt takes just a few taps to find and borrow a book. Libby has a ground-breaking built-in ebook reader, and a beautiful audiobook player. If you prefer, you can send books to your Kindle for reading. Sign in to multiple libraries, with one or more library cards. Stay signed in for as long as you like. Download books and audiobooks for offline reading, or stream them to save space. Sample any book with a tap -- nothing to download or delete. Try a zoomable graphic novel, or a picture book with readalong audio. All your holds and loans are consolidated on a single shelf. Tag titles as read, loved, hated, wishlist, schoolbook, beach-reading, whatever you like. Your loans, holds, reading positions, bookmarks and notes are synchronized automatically across all your devices. Keep track of your reading history in the Activity tabLibby is the brand new app from OverDrive Labs. We're trying to simplify and bring joy to every aspect of digital borrowing and reading. If you love it, you can use it instead of the OverDrive app. If you don't love it yet, feel free to keep using the OverDrive app, but check in on Libby from time to time -- we're adding features and squashing bugs every day. Happy reading.

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