libbyapp.comReviews of libbyapp.com

Does not have the ability to download audio books to MP3 players. This is bad business.

Dreadful, don't know why libraries switched from overdrive, which worked perfectly to this amateur libby. Just the look of it is for 10 year old, with giant graphics and comic words. I does not allow you to download to an audio device. I do not like to listen on my phone, I use a device, smaller and easier. It is poor quality, there is no user support and it is very poorly designed. Not sure who made this decision, but a really bad one.

The old browser version allowed me to download books to read offline. This one doesn't. With the old browser version I could open up more than one book at a time so I could switch between then with a single click. This one doesn't. The old browser showed me the number of a book in a series on the loans page so I could easily track down the next one to download. This piece of rubbish doesn't. It allows me to find that out if I click on the (...) icon. Once again clumsy development. The old one allowed automatic update of reading position when changing between devices (I used phone, tablet and desktop depending on where I am). I don't have to shut anything down to be able to do this. This "new, improved" version does something, sometimes but seldom takes me to the correct position. And, yes, I could use bookmarks. That is clumsy, requires me to shutdown the app each time to get the bookmarks updated. Actually, clumsy is too polite a word. The only value I can see in the updated app is that it serves to give people something new and updated. Unfortunately the new and updated is comparable to a 1910 Model T Ford rather and a Tesla Model S.

Ridiculously long wait times - over a year for many titles! Many titles on NYT list of best fiction not available at all.

goes down for a couple of days at a time at least once a week. impossible to borrow books, says to consult the link, but the link is always broken. Terrible

Hate it! If you ever used Overdrive before, you know what I mean. Libby is a horrible alternative that can't be used offline with nearly impossible highlight function which I need for translation, you just try and try and try to highlight a text and to no avail. Too many buttons to push for context translation and so much more. When they will listen to us?????,

Local libraries don't support it for magazines now, so awful. Older books now & some audio books only. Won't use it much now

I don't know if I have anything else to offer than all the other 1 star reviews. Everything about it is awful. Extremely difficult to log in each and every time you want to use it, and unlike every other site and app, it doesn't work with saved information. Someone is clearly taking advantage of libraries with this sh*tshow.