Libby, by OverDrive

Meet Libby. 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 card 2. Open the Libby app 3. Find your local library 4. Search, sample, borrow, enjoy It 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. ---- Libby 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.

Features:

  • Sign in to multiple libraries, with one or more library cards
  • 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 tab

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12 July 2017

Trying to listen to an audio book and a lot of time when I pause or stop listening the location resets. I need to keep an eye on where I pauses so I can find where I left of.


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10 July 2017

Thank you Overdrive for this UWP app! It's a great start, but still lacking. Mainly, there are glitches, causing it to reset. Some Windows 10 features would be nice too, like pinned and live tiles.


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10 July 2017

Thank you for making this great app available on Windows Phone 📞


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9 July 2017

I love that it plays continuously, a big improvement on Overdrive. Still having glitches that require starting from the beginning. Heats up phone and drains battery rapidly. Does not allow early returns, which is inconvenient and inconsiderate to those waiting on popular titles. Fix those and I'll give 5 stars.


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7 July 2017

I like the format and style but it seems to take a lot of battery. Even downloaded audiobooks. Overdrive did not do that. I like that I do not have to click to the next part/file. When I pause for a while the app closes.


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7 July 2017

Thanks so much to the Overdrive team for not forgetting about Windows like everyone else. I would have been happy if the terrible Overdrive 1.0 app just kept working forever but I never expected them to develop a whole new modern, even UWP app! I haven't explored all the new features they've added, like variable speed yet. I had pretty much given up on being able to use the Overdrive service anymore with the death of the old app. What a delight to have this back and much improved! Free Audiobooks and ebooks! What are you waiting for! Get this NOW! Take THAT Amazon, with your lousy Kindle support in Windows!


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6 July 2017

The reading experience is really good with this, much better than OverDrive's older products. I'd give this 5 stars, except for two things. It doesn't do periodicals and it keeps the CPU going at 20%-30% all the time. This will drain anything not plugged in pretty quickly. When the CPU drain gets fixed, 4 stars for sure.


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5 July 2017

Happy just to see a new release for mobile 10. The overdrive app stopped working on my 950 after the last 2 updates. I ended up using my older version 8.1 phone for audio books . Just took a tour for now, will use it after finishing book on old one.


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5 July 2017

We really needed this :) Thank you!


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3 July 2017

Text scaling not maintained. Also task switching locks up app. Looking forward to when issues addressed as shows hope.

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