libbyapp.comReviews of libbyapp.com

Very hard to download audiobooks, they keep stalling halfway through, or even worse only download the prologue

I have actually enjoyed the app in spite of the low average score here. I had an issue and the support team actually cared enough to hold my hand till the end. Minus 1 star for the occasional bug.

Just bring back overdrive! It was simpler, quicker and better in every way!

First, I refuse to download their app as I see no benefit or utility for me. I only use the web based online version, but these comments hold true across all platforms. * I assume for their convenience they optimized the Libby design for display via their app, or, in a pinch, online via a phone screen. The online version as displayed on a laptop or PC is full of wasted white space, repetitive and useless links, fewer items per line, visually difficult to scan. Then you scroll and scroll and scroll down...hoping to see something interesting. * Then I can't find decent reading material! Normally I browse library content, looking for something interesting. That's how I found a number of enjoyable authors....Louise Penny, Donna Leon, Ruth Downie... On Overdrive I checked frequently to immediately view the general collection books as they popped up, whether currently available or not and across all subjects and types. It seems most of what Libby displays are crummy romance novels. Certainly Overdrive didn't seem to display this much drek. Is there some algorithm at work? Does Libby force this mix of product on the libraries or is this actually what my library is chosing? * As to the frequent complaint about audiobook streaming requirement...it was always annoying and glitchy. But I do understand why it was done, so we could not steal copies of audiobooks. Is this some plan to make libraries so worthless we will stop using them? I actually dread the day I will stop accessing my library's content because Libby has made it so inconvenient. The dumbing down of the American public at work.

Horrible app. Never works and you can only listen on your phone which is way too heavy, bulky, and totally inconvenient to carry all over. I now purchase most of my audio books so I can use them on my mp3. I have asked my library to discontinue spending on this ebook system scam which most people have stopped using due to them becoming utterly un-user friendly.

I was just forced to switch from Overdrive, which I have been using for 15 years, to Libby, to download an audiobook from my library. On the original Overdrive, I could download the book in an MP3 format to my computer and load it onto my MP3 player. Cannot do it now and must listen on a phone or connected device. Terribly inconvenient not being able to use my very small inexpensive player and now risk damaging my bulky phone when out doing sports.

Dreadful app, I am so fed up with it that I have deleted it. Whenever I search for a book it is unavailable or there is a 6 month wait. There are no notifications or reminders sent either.

Book "The Turn of the Key" expressly a nanny of a child murderer is a disturbed rendition acclaimed as best seller but is in fact dreadful and highly distasteful unworthy a review at all. Disgraceful filth. Shame on you.