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!
Updated on
Apr 18, 2024
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CIndy Hunt
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April 30, 2024
It takes about ten seconds to download each set of pages or length of audiobook. If you read or listen to too much, you have to wait for another download. It freezes or won't download sometimes. When that happens, I return the book and immediately borrow it again. I don't like getting books on Kindle because I can't ever get rid of the book cover, even when the book is gone. I've updated Libby, cleared the cache, and the problems continue. I don't know which of the two options is worse.
7 people found this review helpful
Heike Cyphert
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April 21, 2024
Since the last update Libby no longer downloads books, which is extremely inconvenient. Navigating wishlist is a pain, with way too many steps and getting reset to the top of the list if you leave that main page. Requesting new books is an even bigger pain. Books have disappeared off my wishlist. Browsing for books takes way too much time now. The back button takes you to the main page instead of back. I can't believe we went from overdrive to this.
36 people found this review helpful
Amber Lovaas-Pearce
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May 14, 2024
This app has exceeded my expectations. I love being able to look up a book or audiobook from the app and if its available or something I want to borrow, I hit borrow and bam it's available for me to read right then. It does have a dictionary, highlight the word and hit define and it will give you the definition. I am still checking the app out, I just recently downloaded the app but so far I like it alot! And it's free!
What's new
Bug fixes, performance optimizations, accessibility improvements, and preparation for our next round of features. Thanks for supporting your local libraries!