libbyapp.comReviews of libbyapp.com

I read all of the reviews that were available. Only 1 back in 2022 gave libby 4 stars. It is truly garbage. Overdrive was so easy and convenient to use. In Libby I am trying to add partner libraries and the instructions are just appalling. I do hate this app with a passion. I really enjoy audio books and Overdrive was great! I could see the list of chapters easily from the book I was reading I could easily go back a chapter if I forgot exactly where I left off. Libby is clunky, not user friendly. I regularly use CCleaner to remove unnecessary files on my computer. Have used it for over 10 years. Never a problem with overdrive. Libby App is crap if you are trying to use it on your computer and super slow in downloading, Whoever wrote this App should be shown the door. Go back to Overdrive!!

I absolutely hate this app, will only let me read books in its app. No longer can read books through my kindle, where all my settings work for me perfectly. This was such a bad idea. I like the convince of ebooks, but not with the frustration it takes to use the Libby app.

Libby constantly stops working, claiming there's an internet problem when there isn't any. Also, there's no interface with NaturalReader. In short, it's junk. Overdrive is so much better.

Was forced to install Libby after Overdrive refused to download books. Hate the format but have slowly adapted. Was VERY hard to set accessibility. After all, I read on a tablet because of vision problems. Shouldn't it be easier with a larger range of settings? Was easy with Overdrive but took quite a long trial and error period with Libby to finally get a font that works. I cannot begin to say how clunky this app is but my REAL problem is it eats power like crazy. I have turned off everything I can turn off. Why is it eating twice the power in the background??? I NEVER had to charge my tablet as much as I have since I started using this app in May. Same reading habits, more than twice charging times. I hate this thing.

I will it give it one star for the fact that it has the books. I hate the new format and I'm looking for a new way to listen to audio books so I don't have to use it. Layout. Hiding the series order once a book is on your shelf. Searching for books can't be sorted. It's one thing after another. It's like offering the lights and glamor of Vegas but giving us get Carson City. I'll most likely go to the full site to search for and check out books, then listen to them on the app if necessary, or listen to them in my browser. Go back to the drawing board on this, give us the original Overdrive app in the meantime, please.

I used to use Overdrive to download audio books to a USB drive to listen in my car on my daily commute. I would usually have two books on the drive, one to listen to, the other ready to go when the first ended. Libby will not let patrons download to a USB. It is extremely inflexible when it comes to availability when I need a book on the phone app. So much so, that I have given up on it and totally gone to Hoopla. For the record, after listening to a book on a USB, I would delete it for the next download. I do wonder if the main reason the much-inferior Libby app was put in place was to prevent people from downloading audio books for fear that it might be costing audio book sales? All I can say is that I doubt it was. It would be interesting to see if the death of downloading, perpetrated by Libby, results in any sales increase.

The Overdrive app that Libby replaced was easy to use, you downloaded your book from the library, read it, and returned it. Libby, on the other hand, is a time consuming clunky, nightmare that doesn't even run on the tablet I was using. I had to purchase a new tablet in order to continue getting ebooks from the library. Note newer is not necessarily better.

Not user friendly. Too cluttered and not nearly as fast and easy as Overdrive. I really dislike Libby, and am frustrated and irritated every time I have to use it. It's just bad!