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Originally Posted by Renate
... Is there anything useful that Libby has done over OverDrive? ...
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Well, when I just went in there to take screenshots to answer John F, I was notified that I could take advantage of a "skip-the-line" book, so that's something Overdrive didn't have. It's very nice for me, but not so much for the 100+ people who were in front of me.
Anyway, I now have 7 days to read "City of Dreams". Here's the Libby help on how skip-the-line works:
https://help.libbyapp.com/en-us/6172.htm
Of course, when I go to the Overdrive page for the library I just borrowed this book from, I see it is still on my Holds page as well as on my Loans page.
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... I would like a sane taxonomy where "bodice-rippers" are not classified as "literature".
(No offense to bodice-rippers if that is what you're looking for.)...
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To be fair, Libby/OD is not actually categorizing the books. They're using the genres and subgenres that are assigned by the publishers, same as every other bookseller.
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Edit: "In general where would you like to read your books? Kindle or Libby"
First of all, this whole website is a train wreck.
The above quote is in a graphic block, not actual text.
Next, what the heck happened to EPUB?
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Yeah, this is painful. Maybe it's useful for people who actually read books on their phones, but I am not one. I want epubs! The steps to get an epub from Libby to your computer are:
- borrow a book
- go to your shelf
- Manage Loan
- Read With
- select EPUB
Or you can just go to the Overdrive loans page for the library and click one button that says Download EPUB ebook. As long as there's still an Overdrive website, that's by far the easiest way to deal with the actual borrowing and downloading of books. Libby is only needed to set up notifications so you can go and manually put the books on hold.