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Can Someone Explain Libby?
I recently got a Pocketbook Verse. For years I have used overdrive to visit the library, check out my book, put them in Calibre, get metadata the way I want it, then put the book on my reader. Now will Libby let me do all that? It seems like Libby is advertised as a reader app (not sure I need that). So if I get Libby, will I still have the same functionality I had with Overdrive?
There's probably some functionality in Libby that I may find that I like. That'll be great. I just don't want to cripple the system I have now. Basically, download the book and manage it in Calibre. |
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Does your library force you to use Libby? My library still uses Overdrive in the browser. I think you can also use Libby in the browser, but I don't. I can still download Overdrive ePubs (the .acsm file) directly from my PocketBook HD 3's browser, and the HD 3 will open them from the Adobe server. (I don't always do it that way, but I can.)
You can also download the .acsm file to your computer and email it to your PocketBook and, again, the PocketBook will take care of it from there. |
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Libby is made by Overdrive the company to be their new generation frontend to their Overdrive service. They gave the user facing app a major redesign and at the same time a new name. It's still Overdrive underneath.
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The browser version of Libby does not permit you download an acsm file or read on Pocketbook.
The android and iOS apps do permit you to download an acsm file. |
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By "you" you mean you? I just tried, and I was able to download an acsm file using Libby with a browser on Windows.
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Well, I'm not impressed, but at least I can filter for "(English or German) and Epub".
They really should have a global filter as that and local filters that are temporary. Still, the layout is clearly designed for phones or a 3 year-old's tablet. |
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Guess I have to live with it.
So, Does Libby do away with Adobe digital and Adobe digital device authorizations, etc? Currently, I check out a book. The library sends me a .acsm file that then allows me to download a book (but only if my device (desktop computer) has been authorized by Adobe. The book gets dropped into a folder and app: Adobe Digital Editions(app) & My Digital Editions (sub folder of Documents folder). And there it sits, until I select 'get books' in Calibre where Calibre gets it and I can then manage all the metadata that I like to have as part of my library, before I import a book to my ereaders.
Does Libby do the same? Where does it put the book when I check it out from the library? I am not the least bit interested, just yet, of reading the book in my browser window or on my telephone. I read an article today that said on 1 May 2023 Overdrive will be turned off. If it was turned off then I guess I never really used Overdrive. Instead I was really using only Adobe while thinking it was Overdrive doing all the work. If that's the case, I was grossly wrong, and probably have no reason to be concerned about it. |
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Once again, not OverDrive the service/website but OverDrive the app that Libby replaces.
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Well, I'm even less impressed.
They twist your arm to go to Kindle. Even if you don't have an Amazon account and no Kindle it has you marked as borrowing it already to Kindle. Yes, you can work around this, but you have to be careful to back out as soon as you have "borrowed" it. |
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My library switched to Libby from Overdrive some time back.
I check out books infrequently. Until today, I was able to download the file for ADE, but the online Libby tool no longer has the choice. One can use Libby or Kindle. The previous "Other Options" where epub could be selected is no longer there. |
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