Libbyapp Reviews

Please bring Overdrive back

Please bring Overdrive back This app is Not user friendly To recommend a book for your library to purchase is an exercise in futility Already released books are ok not great or easy to find Upcoming releases nope Doesn t even recognize the title Search functions and reading functions not near as seemless I have a Kindle and I understand that this is a third party app but please Overdrive was intuitive functioned well across platforms I understand the same company owns both Maybe you could take the best of both apps a d make a better app

A 20th century app in the 21st century Woohoo

Your data is not backed up When I reinstalled the app a year of bookmarked tagged books holds etc was wiped clean It s been a known issue for ages their support team knows it The working around is to set up Libby on another device but they don t remind you of that They remind you of a whole bunch of other stuff like notifications or opening books in Kindle but they don t remind you that YOU WILL LOSE YOUR DATA

Not at all a friendly user interface

Not at all a friendly user interface Overdrive was much easier and without the hitches Libby has The search facility is useless -example - I searched for an author and the search delivered 11 audio books and 17 books by this particular author However when I clicked on the 17 books none of them were by the selected author They were a random hodge podge of mystery thrillers Dreadful app

Terrible waste of public money

Such a dreadful app I ve stopped using it The problem being that that the county library service uses it as it s vehicle for downloads Not so much a public service as a publicly funded pain in the proverbial

Less than one star it s a scam

Less than one star it s a scamI used it for the first time because borrow box didn t have a book I was wanting to listen to Got 20 minutes in and it said my internet connection was down so I returned the book and reborrowed yes while my internet is apparently down I started again and same thing won t play because my internet is down

Clunky but gets there in the end

latest version downloaded but this library reading app never offers to remember my sign-in details so I have to always have my library card number and pin number to hand Then 4 more hoops to jump through Never remembers previous borrowings Always automatically synchronises to last page in magazine no way to change it take 3 minutes to get back to first page etcetera feels like an app under development but rates itself as superb

I read a lot of books

I read a lot of books both on my Kindle Paperwhite and regular books I get about half of my reading material at my local library A few months ago I tried borrowing things on my Kindle For the past few days I ve been trying to connect to Libby via my Paperwhite which I ve been able to do before but today it keeps giving me a cute TRY AGAIN button Well why would I Most of what s available isn t the kind of literature I read This app is garbage

Libby revised and wiped out all my TAGS

Libby just revised their App and wiped out all my tags and thousands of titles You cannot trust this company I am supposed to get notifications if new titles appear on Libby This service has never worked I am supposed to get notifications when a title on Hold is available This service does not work I read 671 books last year and kept track of past reading on Libby ALL GONE I had Tags with books I wanted to read in history literature mystery and dozens of other themes ALL GONE My library forced Libby upon me I hate the app I will be complaining to all members of the library board