Library e-book and audiobook app Libby is adding AI, much to the disappointment of some readers and librarians, who would prefer not to have AI inserted into their favorite apps. The new feature, ...

Avid Overdrive users may have noticed several changes to the Libby app at the beginning of the month. Early April, Overdrive released Libby 9.0 to improve user capabilities. Libby, the mobile app ...

The COVID-19 pandemic had a huge impact on life as we knew it. In the blink of an eye, work from home and e-learning became the things we were doing. Church services went virtual, stores and ...

Glenside Public Library District in Glendale Heights recently announced that over 3,000 popular magazines are now available to download and read on any device 24/7. For the first time, users with a ...

Angelica Gonzalez used to read about a book a year. Then she discovered the Libby app, which allows anyone with a Los Angeles Public Library card to borrow e-books, audiobooks and other electronic ...

Once books become available and people have the ability as well as their right to distinguish among ideas, to develop sympathies for and antipathies toward ideas, cultures, histories … and just ...

Libby, compatible with iOS and Android devices, is available in 22,000 public libraries worldwide, including 90 percent of public libraries in North America. With newly integrated search and ...

Lockdown here in New York didn’t seem so bad, as I could encase myself in a cocoon of movies, TV shows and comics to keep myself entertained. As for books, however, there was one problem: The ...

While libraries were closed earlier in the year due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, reading took to online options with apps accessible for free through public libraries. With that increase in ...

Wickliffe Public Library, 1713 Lincoln Road, will be having a “Get to Know Libby” program at 7 p.m., Oct. 16. The Libby app by OverDrive is an application designed to allow library patrons to check ...

An inflection point came in 2002, when Potash said OverDrive was not in its strongest position as a business. This was after dot com crash, and e-book was almost a dirty word, Potash said. But ...