Libby

In March 2023 Libby started running hot. My iPhone got very hot and battery power level was declining rapidly after 10 minutes of reading. Before March I had used Libby on the same iPhone for years with no problems. Something changed in March. My IOS is 12.5 and will not update as it is an old iPhone. Now I have to go to the library to get a paper book. Very disappointing!

Recently switched to Libby, because apparently Overdrive will not be available in 2023. I was totally disappointed when sitting in my car, eating lunch I found out my books on Libby can't be accessed without wifi. Very often I am without wifi at a restaurant, a doctor's office, etc; places I've always been able to open Overdrive and read my already downloaded books. I am so unhappy about this. I guess if I want to sit in the park, under a shade tree and read, I'll need to go back to reading actual books. This sucks, Libby!

Anything popular you have to wait months for. Finally got still life, after waiting 8 weeks, only to find it had been returned 9 days early (not by me). Now I'd have to wait 13/weeks! Forget that, totally useless. Barnes and Noble, here I come.
Now they threaten to filter out my review because I won't submit proof of purchase. It's a free app, idiots!

Your service is still clunky. I should be able to filter out previously read books. Having to scroll through page after page of available books that I've already read is tedious. And, I've used Overdrive then Libby for many many years now. I should be able to merge all previously read books between the two apps together and I should Not need to export the data to a file! Hire some programmers!

Atrociously complex method of viewing books, One at a time! Seriously? Some IT factotum and group think thought ths would be better. It is not. Very hard to choose limited options for book searches, tedious borrowing and folks then remember to back to app choose "manage" download for example for kindle, return to app etc.etc. How does one choose reading level or sort available from wait list? ( by using panes which light up or go dark at random. And, I am just getting standard. This is e library for those who read a book a book a year. Bring back overdrive. Gave this app a good try - three months of pain.

Loved Overdrive. Please bring it back. Simple to Use. Straightforward. Extremely adjustable reading pane, fonts, margins. Libby is messy and needlessly complicated and not very adjustable. It's missing a lot of the things I loved about Overdrive. I don't enjoy reading on Libby. Also Overdrive always worked. Not sure why Libby is not working right now for searching out a new book. It must be down? Overdrive was never down. Bring back Overdrive!

Granted, Adobe Digital Editions was frustrating with it not being serviced and all but Libby is awful. Overdrive was great so I don't see why the push to change the app since all you really needed to do is replace ADE with an app that works consistantly. But no, you have to make a whole new system that's clunky, looses some functionality and made me cry.
I'm disabled great-grandmother and I'm really hate the fact that I can no longer load a book onto my older iPad 4 and read it. Sitting for any length of time on my PC is painful so that's out. I'm just going to close my brower and see if I feel any better about this tomorrow but I'm guessing that will be a no and that you all really don't care.

Although I had a good initial conversation, it's sad that he never returned my calls or emails. My only option was to use the good information he gave me and hire another attorney.

If I download a book it should be available whether or not I'm connected to a Wi-Fi source. Not the case with Libby…it is not as efficient as Overdrive nor as easy to use as Overdrive. I'm really frustrated. The app freezes as you turn a page, accessing my library's is confusing. I am an avid reader and enjoyed having the books at my disposal. I am not a fan of Libby

Used Overdrive for years. I download audiobooks for myself and my daughter. I used to be able to transfer these easily to my ipod nano. (This doesn't connect to the internet). My daughter used to listen to them on long car journeys and I'd listen to mine in the garden. Now you need to be connected to wifi. The whole purpose of audiobooks is to be able to listen to them on the move, doing something else. You have removed Overdrive which was easy to use and replaced it with something that is complicated and not fit for purpose. So disappointed.

After having used Overdrive since it was first introduced to borrow audiobooks from my local digital library and having listened to literally hundreds of them I can unequivocally say that Libby is horrible! It's clunky and totally unintuitive from a user's standpoint. The search engine when compared to Overdrive is a piece of junk. The attempt to create a cute website with cute icons looks like it was created for either 10 year olds or idiots. You people need to hire someone who knows who your target users are and what they want. Whoever made the decision to abandon Overdrive and promote Libby needs to find a new line of work!

Whenever my computer reboots, I lose all of the saved information. It is very frustrating to remember what titles that I tagged or requested.

I used Overdrive on my ipad and it was great to take on trips and I could read for hours on one battery charge. Libby drains my battery in less than 2 hours. Other little disadvantages are that I could see the time and battery charge left at the top of the page in Overdrive but this doesn't show up in Libby until you back out of the reading pane.

Worst app ever. I've loved Overdrive for years. On ebooks, I always used accessability on my IOS, as a reader, but now Libby says must use voiceover instead. Unfortunately voiceover completely took over my iphone and shrouded my password so even after I finally figured out how to enter it, it won't accept it without first turning voiceover off, but now it does a 30 min lockout from even trying to log on whenever I put in my password. After hours of trying all the usual fixes for both iphone log in and turn off voiceover, Apple Care says probably the only way now is to wipe and restore. Thanks Libby guys, won't you please either keep Overdrive. Otherwise can anyone suggest an alternate Library app with a text reader that doesn't use voiceover?

My Aftershock headphones worked just fine with Overdrive, but as soon as I switched to Libby I have problems with it pausing. It also can be have problems with advertising coming up and overriding the audio for the book. Never had that with Overdrive. I'm sticking with Overdrive for as long as I can; Libby is just plain frustrating.

I tried Libby when it was first released. Unlike Overdrive I now need WiFi. I find the structure clunky. Reading a book on Overdrive I can see the number of pages in one corner and the number left to go in the chapter in the other. Useful when my wife wants to turn the light off. Not sure why Libby couldn't keep this feature. I contacted support and was told how I could do it, essentially leave the book. As a former IT guy it's rare to see a revamped app that is so much worse than the original. Why? Can't stand that the libraries are all endorsing this. They are like the Apple apologists in the past who could never accept any criticism of Apple. BTW I'm Apple all the way and they listened to consumers, unlike Overdrive.

New iPad, downloaded app, logged in and tells me my card is invalid, yet I used the card and pin in a local library just 2 days ago!
On previous iPad (uninstalled app), the app was frustrating to use at best.
How I loathe Libby

Had to go to Libby because apparently Overdrive is gone. I live in the country with spotty cell service. If I don't start a book somewhere where there is cell service, I'm out of luck. Really sucks in the car. Never had this issue with Overdrive. Wish I didn't have to change.

Libby is supposedly easier to use. I am beyond frustrated. There is no account page with clear indications on what to do, where to go.
Account page has my loans, holds, wishlist, rated titles, recommendatiins, histiry, settungs. EASY. Just click what you want.
In libby, good luck. Everything is a tag (?) want to find your wish list? Good luck. Want to recommend a book, hahahahaha! Want to rate a book you read?
Overdrive works beautifully, easy & fun. Libby, not so much

Libby is infantile and a sub par experience to Overdrive. After years of Overdrive use I'm now looking for an alternative to Libby. I could go on for days about the experience but all I will say now is bring Overdrive back or align Libby more closely to it. What a waste of my time.

My public library runs on the Libby app so I have no choice but to use it. They switched from Overdrive to Libby. Overdrive was better. I most certainly would never buy this app.

This app sucks as it continually crashes, it is just crashed while I'm actually writing this review and listening to a book. I don't think it could be much worse than this pure junk.

I actually tried Libby before I switched to Overdrive. Libby is unintuitive, clunky and less functional than Overdrive. I understand that at some point Overdrive won't work anymore but then and only then will i downgrade from Overdrive to Libby. I wish i could rate this app less than 1 star.