Libby, by OverDrive

OverDrive, Inc.

About this app

All over the world, local libraries offer millions of ebooks and audiobooks. You can borrow them — for free, instantly — with a library card and Libby: the award-winning, much-loved app for libraries.

• Browse your library’s digital catalog of books — from classics to NYT best-sellers
• Borrow and enjoy ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines
• Download titles for offline reading, or stream them to save space
• Send ebooks to your Kindle (U.S. libraries only)
• Listen to audiobooks via Android Auto
• Use tags to create your must-read list and any other book lists you want
• Keep your reading position automatically synced on all your devices

In our beautiful, intuitive ebook reader:
• Adjust text size, background color, and book design
• Zoom into magazines and comic books
• Define and search for words and phrases
• Read and listen to read-alongs with your kids
• Add bookmarks, notes, and highlights

In our ground-breaking audio player:
• Slow down or speed up the audio (0.6 to 3.0x)
• Set a sleep timer
• Simply swipe to skip forward and backward
• Add bookmarks, notes, and highlights

Libby is built by the team at OverDrive, in support of local libraries everywhere.

Happy reading!

Ratings and reviews

Love this app normally, baring some small UX issues around searching and tagging, it's great. But suddenly today it's bugging out completely on both my devices (Pixel and Samsung) and I can't use the app at all one one and can't access audiobooks on either. Bugs suck but it's also poor form to release updates just before a long weekend...

Horrible app. If I could give this zero stars I would. What kind of horrid coding is this? The app keeps asking me to verify my card and fails to verify it! It just sends me back and forth uselessly. And this wasn't even the first time! The book I've been waiting for forever suddenly gets added to the collection and then this happens! I'm now 20th in line, thank you very much :(

This app has two major problems, and they combine to make using this app extremely frustrating at unpredictable intervals. 1) Anytime you hit a prompt in any menu, there's about a 70% chance that it doesn't work and it just closes the menu. 2) When using this on tablet, the app may or may not actually download anything it's told to download. If it doesn't, there is no way to force it to. I've closed the app, restarted the tablet, restarted wifi. I lose days of checkout time to this. Routinely.

What's new

Bug fixes, performance optimizations, accessibility improvements, and preparation for our next round of features. Thanks for supporting your local libraries!