BorrowBox

Bolinda digital

About this app

Discover the Ultimate Library Experience – Borrow eAudiobooks, eBooks, eMagazines, and eNewspapers – All in One Place.

With BorrowBox, browsing, borrowing, reading, or listening has never been simpler. Take your library with you, wherever you go, whenever you want. If your local library offers BorrowBox, simply sign in with your membership details to unlock a world of digital reading and listening.

ALL YOUR LIBRARY FAVOURITES, ONE APP
Explore eAudiobooks, eBooks, eMagazines, and eNewspapers – all the formats your library offers, all in one place.

EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE
Read or listen to your borrowed titles directly in the app. No extra downloads, no extra steps.

MADE FOR YOU
Enjoy curated collections and themes that make discovering your next read and listen a breeze.

BROWSE IN ANY LANGUAGE
Our Language Browsing feature makes it simple to find content in multiple languages, tailored for different audiences.

NEVER MISS A RELEASE
Subscribe to your favourite eMagazines or eNewspapers, and they’ll be borrowed and downloaded automatically as new issues arrive.

STAY IN SYNC
Your reading and listening progress seamlessly follows you across all your devices.

TAILORED TO YOU
Set a sleep timer for your eAudiobooks, add your favourites to your reading lists, and adjust playback speed to suit your listening style.

Ratings and reviews

My library recently switched from Libby to BorrowBox and I don't like the app as much. it feels a little clunky and it's harder to find something I want to read. Also, with Libby you can search by keyword or topic to find appropriate books, but this doesn't work with BorrowBox. Edit: they also send you an email every time you borrow or return a book and you can't turn that off. I don't need an email to tell me about something I just did.

Not a very easy interface to use. Search for titles and authors and you're met with not available - but I know it is, because I've gone through the genre section and found it there. The genre section is also difficult - organised in alphabetical order for thousands of books and audio books... haven't found a way to find a specific genre I'd like and no way to jump to the letter of the alphabet I want to get to. Frustrating.

App works ok. The search function is pretty slow and does not yield the best results. Most annoying is the audio playback speeds. Whoever designed this clearly never listened to an audiobook. There needs to be smaller incrementals. Options start with: 1, 1.25, 1.5, etc. Most of the time 1 (normal speed) could use a bit of an increase but 1.25 is way too fast. On Audible, I usually listen back at 1.10 or 1.15.

What’s new

Performance and stability improvements.