All over the world, local libraries offer millions of ebooks and audiobooks. You can borrow them — for free, instantly — with a library card and Libby: the award-winning, much-loved app for libraries.
• Browse your library’s digital catalog of books — from classics to NYT best-sellers • Borrow and enjoy ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines • Download titles for offline reading, or stream them to save space • Send ebooks to your Kindle (U.S. libraries only) • Listen to audiobooks via Android Auto • Use tags to create your must-read list and any other book lists you want • Keep your reading position automatically synced on all your devices
In our beautiful, intuitive ebook reader: • Adjust text size, background color, and book design • Zoom into magazines and comic books • Define and search for words and phrases • Read and listen to read-alongs with your kids • Add bookmarks, notes, and highlights
In our ground-breaking audio player: • Slow down or speed up the audio (0.6 to 3.0x) • Set a sleep timer • Simply swipe to skip forward and backward • Add bookmarks, notes, and highlights
Libby is built by the team at OverDrive, in support of local libraries everywhere.
Happy reading!
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Apr 18, 2024
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Robert Webb
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April 23, 2024
The app is convoluted and confusing. May buttons are hidden or unlabeled. There's no flow so it's hard to know where you are in the app or how to get to what you want. It tries to be cute more than functional. Searching for audiobooks is tedious, requiring constant Forward and back navigating. Search results won't allow you to filter out books you've already listened to. Books in a series are only partially identified. The app is never improved or updated.
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Sean Frev
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April 24, 2024
Very non-intuitive, confusing, annoying to use. It takes 4 clicks to get anywhere in the app. Tags are great but the implementation is convoluted and maddening. Just opening the app stops playback on other apps. I'm just looking at the audiobook, not trying to play it! Stop trying to make it pretty and just focus on the basics. Simplify and condense the interface or at least allow us to heavily customize the UI
53 people found this review helpful
Heike Cyphert
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April 21, 2024
Since the last update Libby no longer downloads books, which is extremely inconvenient. Navigating wishlist is a pain, with way too many steps and getting reset to the top of the list if you leave that main page. Requesting new books is an even bigger pain. Books have disappeared off my wishlist. Browsing for books takes way too much time now. The back button takes you to the main page instead of back. I can't believe we went from overdrive to this.
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What's new
Bug fixes, performance optimizations, accessibility improvements, and preparation for our next round of features. Thanks for supporting your local libraries!