Libby, by OverDrive 4+
Library audiobooks and ebooks.
OverDrive, Inc.
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- Free
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Description
Free audiobooks, ebooks, and magazines from your local library! Borrow bestsellers and read anytime, anywhere.
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 Apple CarPlay
• 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!
What’s New
Version 7.0.1
A functional change — accidental swipes on your lock-screen playback controls can no longer dramatically change your position in an audiobook — plus bug fixes and preparation for our next round of major features.
Ratings and Reviews
Editors' Notes
There’s only one thing easier than visiting the library: bringing it to you. Meet Libby, an app that lets you log in to your local library to access ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines, all for the reasonable price of free. Sign in, link your library card, and go—it’s that simple.
Love this App
As an avid reader I have found this App to be a godsend. I read quickly and easily finish an average book in a day. When travelling I would commonly pack a half dozen books which always caused issues with baggage weight. Now I can have books downloaded ready from the library and no problems with being over weight limits. I love how you can place books on 'hold' and you are notified they are available to download immediately - no traipsing off to a physical library to collect - of course, Murphy’s law dictates that when you have several on hold they will arrive all together but with the new feature of being able to put your hold back and stay top of the list this is no longer a problem. A great and convenient app.
Needs improvement
Honestly, this is such a pain to use. The menu categories are unintuitive and unhelpful. In the Shelf the backbutton only works until you get down to opening individual books, where it then sends you off somewhere completely different. Sorting tags by oldest keeps breaking and reverting back to newest and needing to be reset. These two things together make any kind of tag management a nightmare. Audiobooks that have already been downloaded to the device are constantly refusing to open because of internet connectivity issues, which is frustrating enough when commuting but worse at home with a good wifi connection and no practical need for internet connectivity at all. And the Notify Me emails not containing any links and just helpfully suggesting you go find the book yourself is hilariously passive aggressive. I would submit bug reports for some of these but the Libby app doesn't make support particularly convenient to contact either. I wonder why.
App Privacy
The developer, OverDrive, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
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Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
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Information
- Seller
- OverDrive, Inc.
- Size
- 11.2 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 10.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 10.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 10.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Danish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Maori, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 OverDrive, Inc.
- Price
- Free