KCLS

KCLS Mobile

About this app

Use the new King City Library System app to manage your account. The app makes it easy to search, place holds, and get reading suggestions. Features:

• Search the collection with instant, accurate results
• Place and manage holds
• Renew items
• Browse bestsellers and new material
• Check library hours and locations
• Manage your library shelves

Ratings and reviews

When it works, it's a great resource for looking up and reserving books throughout the King County Library System. It also syncs audiobooks and ebooks well with Kindle, Libby, or Overdrive. Unfortunately, it routinely signs me out automatically once a week and won't allow me to sign in for an indeterminate amount of time, which is quite frustrating.

This is a wonderful tool (mobile management of account/holds/book lists/etc), but comes with some quirks. The biggest issue I seem to have is with the search function. When typing, the app seems to have a lag in which one or multiple keystrokes are skipped. It's not like this is due an autocorrect sort of function operating--I am not getting any predictive text suggestions. It just doesn't keep up. I usually have to erase my entire input and start over with very slow and deliberate typing. :-(

Old version on my previous phone had an ebook download button that appeared after checkout. Can't find that on the new version; had to hunt & peck before giving up and going into overdrive to download it. Maybe that's how they want it? Seems unintuitive and less user friendly, but what do I know? Apps still pretty slow, but mostly just the home page. Other sections (borrowing, shelves, ect) are moderately faster in the new version.

What’s new

Added support for 16 KB memory page size for Android 15+ to meet Google Play requirements.

Fixed persistent loading spinner when tapping “View all” in My Events.

Back button on system messages now works correctly (no app closure).