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So frustrating! I have been using Overdrive which is wonderful and very easy to use. Recently it wouldn't download the books I wanted, so I finally switched to Libby, which was a chore to find. I have a Surface Go tablet and had to jump through hoops to get the Libby downloaded which only works with WiFi so that is no convenient for when I am traveling or weekends at the cabin where there is no Wifi. It is difficult to work through the app to find the books you want to check out. Not at all intuitive. I wish that my library would continue to use the Overdrive, so much better. You know now may pages are in the chapters, you know how far into the book you are at. So easy to work with. Hopefully Libby will improve and be more user friendly.

I am very unhappy that Libby will be replacing Overdrive. Libby is complicated and not intuitive to use at all. I hope a great number of improvements will be made to Libby before it replaces Overdrive. Better still, why not just abolish Libby. Overdrive is fantastic!

I have a Surface PC with Windows 10 and there is no Libby app for Windows. So... I'm stuck with the Libbyapp.com website, which is REALLY limited and hard to navigate. It seems to be missing a lot of info that the regular website (still currently available, thankfully) offers. Because there's no Windows app, it means streaming only. Extremely inconvenient when you are on the move and/or WiFi isn't always available. I've installed BlueStacks (Android emulator) to try the Libby app on it and attempted to download an audiobook via the Libby app there. It's been an hour and the icon is still spinning as if it's downloading, with no info on progress. In the OverDrive app, one audiobook took only a few minutes to download, so there's no reason it should be so slow. I'm trying this out now because the OverDrive app will be phased out sometime next year. I am EXTREMELY disappointed with the functionality and user interface of both LibbyApp.com and the Libby app. They are terribly dumbed down compared to the older OverDrive website, and it is difficult to find the detailed information on each book and my checkouts/holds that I'm used to seeing. I hope they keep both websites so I can at least BROWSE and CHECK OUT books through the OverDrive website.

I currently use the original Overdrive app for ebooks loans from Kent County Council's libraries. Overdrive itself is a wonderful app, Very simple to use. Easy to navigate. Yet now KCC are pushing Libby. Libby is awful. I have never seen a reading app that is so user UNfriendly. None of it makes any sense. I will use Overdrive until KCC removes access, and at that point I will no longer use the library, because I'm not stooping to have to use the awful Libby app just for sake of reading.