drive or overdrive ? - Page 3

Spinningwoman · 09-06-2022, 07:50 AM

The Overdrive app (iOS) used to let me choose the destination of a download, so I could read on my phone immediately with any app that supported Drm epubs. Libby forces me to read in their own app if I want to read immediately on my phone. (I’m in the U.K. so don’t have a kindle option). This is an issue not just because it is a choice that has been taken away, but also because Libby has a bizarrely unreliable interface with the accessibility options on iOS, so that screenreading is an exercise in frustration. I’m not sure why I don’t see more people upset about this, in amongst all the explaining to people that Overdrive as a service isn’t going away. Maybe I’ve missed it.

PeterT · 09-06-2022, 08:38 AM

That might be more of an apple restriction preventing sharing of files between applications

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Spinningwoman · 09-08-2022, 12:20 PM

No, I don’t think so. I can open files from one reader app to another quite happily, or from Dropbox etc. You just go through the IOS ‘share’ sequence. These days you can even plug in a widget and read/write to and Sd card. They’ve just removed the option from Libby.

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09-06-2022, 07:50 AM	#31
Spinningwoman Connoisseur Posts: 72 Karma: 4361592 Join Date: Apr 2012 Device: Sonys, Kindles, Kobos, Jetbook, Pocketbook	The Overdrive app (iOS) used to let me choose the destination of a download, so I could read on my phone immediately with any app that supported Drm epubs. Libby forces me to read in their own app if I want to read immediately on my phone. (I’m in the U.K. so don’t have a kindle option). This is an issue not just because it is a choice that has been taken away, but also because Libby has a bizarrely unreliable interface with the accessibility options on iOS, so that screenreading is an exercise in frustration. I’m not sure why I don’t see more people upset about this, in amongst all the explaining to people that Overdrive as a service isn’t going away. Maybe I’ve missed it.

09-06-2022, 08:38 AM	#32
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,750 Karma: 80104526 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Libra H2O, Libra Colour	That might be more of an apple restriction preventing sharing of files between applications Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

09-08-2022, 12:20 PM	#33
Spinningwoman Connoisseur Posts: 72 Karma: 4361592 Join Date: Apr 2012 Device: Sonys, Kindles, Kobos, Jetbook, Pocketbook	No, I don’t think so. I can open files from one reader app to another quite happily, or from Dropbox etc. You just go through the IOS ‘share’ sequence. These days you can even plug in a widget and read/write to and Sd card. They’ve just removed the option from Libby.

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