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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Libby is now only web based and app based for iOS and Android. But as long as the Overdrive app will still download audiobooks, we are good to go.
If Overdrive was to no longer work, I'd have no idea how to download audiobooks to my laptop.
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I read somewhere (perhaps on our library web site) that OverDrive is scheduled for deprecation in 2023. That was one of the reasons they recommended Libby rather than OverDrive.
Update: The formal announcement is on OverDrive's web site:
https://resources.overdrive.com/libby-faqs/
For my use (borrowing books from the public library to be read in my Kindle), Libby seems to work fine with one possible exception. The overall user experience is different from OverDrive, but that's common with any upgrade in software. The one exception has to do with how the transition from OverDrive to Libby is handled. They have a provision to port a user's OverDrive 'wishlist' into Libby, but I haven't found a way to port the OverDrive 'history.
That's a serious issue. As someone who has been using OverDrive for several years, I have downloaded and read several hundred books, and I need a week filter out those books when I select future downloads. Libby has a 'timeline' feature that tracks books that
it has downloaded, but I need to augment that list with historical data from OverDrive.