Libby, the Library App

This app is awesome. For audio books, it has the ability to change playback speed, you can jump 15 seconds in either direction, manipulate the playback location manually by sliding the location bar, skip the beginning or end of a chapter, bookmark locations, and outside of audio books the app has the ability to tag all the digital content and place holds. If you like kindle for non-audio books, it also allows certain content to be transferred there for the loan duration

I love that I can use my library card to get all kinds of audiobooks. I don't have a kindle, and don't want to read a book on a tablet, but my wife uses Libby for ebooks too. The audiobook player sometimes has to be force closed on my Android phone, but it doesn't happen too often, so it's not annoying enough to drop a star. Overall, I really like this app.

Though I learned how to use the app well and it had a lot of what I was looking for. It just randomly stopped allowing me to read/listen/download books. It would say I have no internet connection, yet the app works perfectly fine other then that, and I would turn around and immediately use things like Audible, YouTube or other online need apps with no issue. Sad cause it worked once and now its not and I loved it.

I love this app very much and all that it does for everyone who uses it. It has a lot of strong points and a lot of useful tools but I had to get a new phone recently and it deleted all of my tagged books even though I'm using the same library card and account info as before. That was four years of tagged books that I no longer have access to. I think the app does a lot of good, but that is an incredibly disheartening issue to deal with.

I've used Libby for several years and loved it. The last several months have been very disappointing with it shutting down constantly. Even when my audiobook is downloaded if I am driving and switch towers it shuts down. I have to restart the app (obviously not ideal for driving hands free). When laying in bed and I set the sleep mode to 30 minutes it shut down after 2 or 3 minutes - 6 times. I had to restart the app to get it going again. The constant shut down is awful. I have android 11 OS.

I can't understand why some people pay any amount of money for access to audiobooks. While not every book is available at release, I still have access to enough books to keep me busy for long periods of time. The app allows downloads, search capabilities, book sample snippets, tracking, book reservation, tag creation and application, reminders, etc. A great option to all those products out there offer similar services for a monetary fee.

Libby is an improvement over Overdrive. It's fast. It's convenient. Number 1 gripe: I use Libby all the time, so why do I need to repeatedly verify my card. I'm clearly actively using it, so why? The search engine is clunky. Searching by author doesn't always result in a complete list. You have to search by title. I can't transfer holds across library cards--which matters if I can't verify a card in that moment. They also don't always stock a complete series.

Absolutely LOVE this app & I've never gotten so much use out of my library card! As someone who is always reading & always listening to an audiobook, it gets pretty expensive to keep unread books on my shelves. This app is my solution & I've saved so much money by borrowing from the library from the comfort of my home. one bummer is there are never enough copies of the most popular new releases, so sometimes you have to wait as much as 24 months (from personal experience) & as little as weeks

Fast and easy to check out library books, and if you have cards from multiple libraries it will check them all when you search. I appreciate the hold deferral option; no more having them all ready at the same time!! Notifications do seem to be broken right now. They used to work perfectly, but now the app tells me I don't have them on no matter how many times I try to set them, and even though the permissions are allowed in my phone settings.

love this app!! one suggestion.... maybe consider putting in an option to save the books you want to read and be able to go back and look at the list later. I know you can check out as many as you want, but that's often more than you can realistically read. you can also "save for later" books that your library doesn't own yet. but no options to save the books you like or might want to read in the future ***update- just realized you can save. just not sure how to find them afterwards.

Great app but I don't like the recent update that makes it hard to download a book for offline reading. I liked the manual option to download. Occasionally, if I lose cell service and the book stops playing, the next time I open the app, the book begins from the beginning. I think this is because the app uses data to save your bookmark??? Other than those minor gripes, this app is great and Kris me awake on my commute!

This app is a great resource! I had eyebsurgery and wanted to try audio books- I've listened to 8 in a month! All you need is a library card and you get access to free ebooks and audio books. The functionality is great too- holds on books that you can delay, a two lane system for waiting lists, speed controls for audio, tags, basically all you would need.

I've had a really good experience with Libby. It's easy to check out books and put them on hold. Sometimes the "hold" time is longer than I like but actually that's a good thing because it means people are reading lol. I also like the option to read books in my Kindle account versus in the Libby app. And reading books and listening to audiobooks is easy and intuitive.

5/5 for this app existing and allowing us to check out audiobooks from the library. Improvements: let us start a book from the beginning when we're done. It's impossible without manually scrolling. The user interface is unintuitive and does not follow a typical organization structure; it takes a lot of clicking around to get what I want done. Please allow searching and holding at multiple libraries at the same time, and allow us to make new audiobook suggestions to our library.

I have been using Libby for years and it works. As an app though, it is poorly designed and at times very confusing to get to what you're trying to find. Trying to find the next book in a series is the most frustrating part. Even when you've finished book one, they don't show you what book is next, you have to go find it. They also must not present this to the libraries either, because very often you finish a few books in a series only to realize one of the books is not available at your library

Love Libby, I really do. It is such an easy and nice way to search for ebooks and audiobooks to borrow from the library. However, I would love if there was a feature to report/flag when information on a book is wrong. Have multiple times now have books show up under the wrong tag only for me to borrow and find out they weren't what I wanted. Edit: Why is there no dark mode for the app itself (not just matching my system)? Took many stars off for this because my eyes can't handle that strain.

I heard about this app in the past but just picked it up a little bit ago in order to support my local library. I wish I started using it sooner! It's a convenient way to access your local library's audio and ebooks. The only frustrations can come from availability but that is entirely based on your library. Libby itself has worked flawlessly and I always get important notifications about borrowed books. Definitely recommend if you have a local library you would like to support.

Pretty cool app. Stumbled across this in 2020 during COVID when we couldn't go to libraries anymore. Using my library card it connected to my local library. Was easy to do. Been using it ever since! Haven't had any problems with it. If you love reading or listening to audiobooks, give this app a try. Then you'll have access to your local library from the comfort of your own home! I absolutely give 5***** to this app and huge THANKS to whoever made it!

I can't believe it took 9 years of paying for Audible before I found this! Now I want an E-Reader, too. Overall a fantastic app. Great playback when interrupted by other notifications, format is easy to use. Sleep timer/playback speed/bookmark options = 👍🏼👍🏼. Only one suggestion: it's too easy to accidentally return a book with a fat finger move. Please add secondary confirmation before returning loans. Great work, devs!

Book after book I've had on hold has lapsed on me. I never get a notification that a book is ready to borrow. I've tried to fix this by going into both my phone's and Libby's notification settings, but I'm still missing most of my holds. Plus, I'll check regularly when I notice a hold is days from being available only to receive, less than 24 hours later sometimes, the notification saying my hold has lapsed.