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Libby is a mobile app that supports users in accessing library services. It is a product of
OverDrive, Inc. OverDrive, Inc. is a digital distributor of eBooks, audiobooks, online magazines and streaming video titles. The company provides digital rights management and download fulfillment services for publishers, libraries, schools, corporations and b ...
In March 2023, OverDrive, Inc. announced it would sunset the legacy OverDrive mobile app on May 1, 2023, having already requested that library systems delete references to the legacy app directing public, academic and corporate libraries and its users to its newer Libby app.


Libby mobile app

The Libby mobile app requests users's library card. With the library card, Libby connects to the user's account at the library and provides support in checking out books. The intent is improved service and ease of accessing the library instead of using the library's own website. A reviewer for '' Literary Review of Canada'' praised Libby's management of reading data, including books read and books in queue for reading. A reviewer for '' Time'' called Libby one of the best apps of 2018. '' Popular Mechanics'' named Libby as one of the best apps of the 2010s. According to OverDrive CEO Steve Potash, as of 2023, Libby is used by approximately "90% of public libraries in North America". Free library services of the sort supported by Libby are unusual in a time period when almost all such services come from commercial vendors.


See also

* Hoopla (digital media service) * Kanopy *
Libro.fm Libro.fm is an audiobook app that splits its profits with an independent bookstore of the customer's choosing. In 2022, the company's publicity director Albee Romero told The Orange County Register that half of all profits go to the selected ind ...


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